And all I loved, I loved alone.
~ Alone by Edgar Allan Poe
We, humans, have a natural ability called neuroplasticity, which means we learn new knowledge and have new experiences, we can develop new networks or circuits of neurons and literally change our minds. But remember, if you're not having fun, you're not learning. There's pleasure in finding out things.
"The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new news"
-Marcel Proust
“(Isn’t memory often about loneliness?)”
— David Bottoms, from “Black Horses,” Otherworld, Underworld, Prayer Porch (Copper Canyon Press, 2018)
After every pain, there is relief but some never fade away.
-haru
Our ancestors speak through us.
~Me
Katerina Marchenko on Etsy
Do not stand at my grave and weep
I am not there; I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond glints on snow,
I am the sun on ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning's hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry,
I am not there; I did not die.
~Mary Elizabeth Frye