Lovely Lost Days

Think of me as a train goes by.

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I won’t say it wasn’t meant to be, because it was. We were. Only for a short while, maybe. But we were.

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Woman in an Interior with Two Cats Drinking Milk, Carl Vilhelm Holsøe

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Carl Holsøe (Danish, 1863–1935) - Waiting By The Window

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Lady and Street Beggar, 1880 William Logsdail (English, 1859–1944)

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BENSON, Frank Weston Sunlight 1909 Oil on canvas, 82 x 51 cm Museum of Art, Indianapolis

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The Met, Charles E. Martin

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Adonis, tr. by Khaled Mattawa, Selected Poems

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Phantom Thread, 2017 (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)

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15/31 of may day bail out

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Life is in charge. We can fight it and be miserable or surrender to it and laugh at our own arrogance and ideas of what should be.

— Gangaji

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Julius Sergius von Klever (Estonia, 1850-1924)

“Winter” 1876

Oil on canvas

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Forgiving the Past

A big problem with getting older is that your past gets longer and regrets accumulate. Although many regretful moments are mercifully lost to the fog of memory, some remain vivid over decades. Big and small, embarrassing, cringe-worthy, ill-advised things we did and said or didn’t do and didn’t say return to us through the years, jabbing us again with a fresh dose of regret and self-reproach. In those moments, we get sucked back into earlier versions of ourselves and relive the experience as both actor and a helpless observer who, through the benefit of time and experience, knows how it might have gone differently. Sometimes, when I step into one of those puddles of my past, I will catch myself scolding my younger self, even hurling insults like, dumbass!, twenty five years or more after the unfortunate event.

To be able to look back on a past event from years in the future and to recognize how you know things now that you didn’t know then, demonstrates a degree of personal growth. It is the wisdom that comes from making so many mistakes over a long lifetime...read more

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“I don’t ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside of me there will always be the person I am tonight.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald / Tender is the Night