REMEMBER A CERTAIN AFTERNOON

The Full Moon Rising 2007

St. Augustine Beach

Photo by:  Royce

Because we do not know when we will die,

We get to think of life

As an inexhaustible well

And yet everything happens

Only a certain number of times

And a very small number really.

How many times

Will you remember a certain afternoon

Of your childhood,

An afternoon

That is so deeply a part of your life

That you can't even conceive

Of your life without it?

Perhaps four or five times more?

Perhaps not even that.

How many times will you watch

The full moon rise,

Perhaps twenty,

And yet it all seems so limitless...

Paul Bowles  1910-1999

American Writer & Composer

SOMETHING TO CONSIDER: 

If I live to be eighty years old, I will have a sum total of 960 opportunities to watch the moon rise.  I have lived long enough to view 660 of them.This means...I have 300 moon rises left in my lifetime.  How many do you have left?

PS:  I've decided I must target a 105-year life span. I'm an incurable romantic when it comes to watching the moon rise above the ocean.  To consider having only 300 left, is simply not acceptable.