Living With Ghosts

One need not be a chamber to be haunted,
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place.

~Emily Dickinson, “Time and Eternity” (first stanza of Ghosts)

I’d never seen that poem before today, but that first stanza so succinctly describes where my head has been the past couple of days, I had to put it here for future reference.

Memories can be dangerous things, especially when they’re forced out by dreams, barely remembered by morning, but powerful enough to sour an entire day.  Some things there’s no making peace with I guess.

Twain on Blogging

Quote

At certain periods it becomes the dearest ambition of a man to keep a faithful record of his performances in a book; and he dashes at this work with an enthusiasm that imposes on him the notion that keeping a blog is the veriest pastime in the world, and the pleasantest. But if he only lives twenty-one days, he will find out that only those rare natures that are made up of pluck, endurance, devotion to duty for duty’s sake, and invincible determination, may hope to venture upon so tremendous an enterprise as the keeping of a blog and not sustain a shameful defeat.  –Mark Twain

Twain Wisdom

Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy, and is captured by the shoemaker whom the mercenaries and millionaires make into a king. The people invent their oppressors, and the oppressors serve the function for which they are invented.   -Mark Twain