"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." ~George Bernard Shaw

"Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time." ~Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn


Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Magpie #32....time is sweet

Time is sweet
Savor each drop as if your last
Sugar sweet grain

36 comments:

  1. "Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new... but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?" ~Paracelsus

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  2. Very good advice! :-)

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  3. savor each drop as if no more drops are left .. well said

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  4. I love simplicity. This is beautiful!

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  5. Sugar sweet grain ... what a sweet concept!

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  6. The sweetest of haikus!

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  7. Loved the way you took those sand grains for sugar sweet grains... and any of them could be the last... So savour it to the best...Fantastic Mag Kathew

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  8. Short and sweet. Savoring each tiny bit.

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  9. Would that we all could live each moment fully but we always think there will be a tomorrow.

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  10. Enjoy the here and now. I'll drink to that!

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  11. I wish you sugar in each hour of the glass. Some have sand. And I'm with Martin H!

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  12. Ah, yes, the wonderful grain of time! Very nice!

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  13. Well said. Time, we always think we have so much of it left, but...

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  14. Dear Kathew: I am transformed by your haiku magic! The logic in your words and sublime and wise. I'm going try to do another Haiku too! Love this!

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  15. mmm pour some sugar on me! (lol) Nice Magpie! This is such fun!

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  16. yes..enjoy each grain....bkm

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  17. What life would really be if all thought in terms of last days, but so easily we forget the important things in life.

    Thank you for visitting my blog. I think Jack left enough of his gremlins unsaid... there might be another installment forthcoming, I'll see what I can do.

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  18. Kathew,
    You put your finger
    on the pulse; tempus fugit.
    examine each grain.
    rel

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  19. I'm really cheered by this..a good way to live!!

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  20. A timely reminder.

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  21. Lovely haiku...so true.

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  22. Excellent advice! If only I had time to spare to do so, lol! =)

    -Weasel

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  23. I always imagined salt or sand in the glass. Sugar keeps turning up here and there. I like that much better.

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  24. and once it is gone you will never get it back...sweet magpie!

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  25. We forget how precious time is. Seeing the sand as sugar, and the sugar as sweet time, is an interesting touch.

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  26. Anonymous9:35 AM

    I would appreciate a follow-up explaining exactly HOW I can do that?

    I know. Too stubborn for too long leaves no hope for the old codgers of the world.

    I think I'm down to two grains of sand left.

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  27. I love the last line...

    sweet indeed!

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  28. Fair warning to us all to remember how fast time slips away. Truer words never spoken.

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  29. So so true to bad we so often forget.

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  30. Thats what we normally foret to do.

    ~Harsha

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  31. "How sweet it is" to quote the late Jackie Gleason. Well done.

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  32. Simple. Short. Sweet.

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  33. Time is sweet! You're right! Thanks for the new metaphor to ponder...

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  34. Great job gal. I agree. Thanks for stopping by. Blessings
    QMM

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