Memento Mori Moon Musings

 The Latin phrase

Memennto mori

means

Remember your mortality

(super moon May 8th 2012, south Texas view)

I think the author May Sarton

said it best

in her book

Plant Dreaming Deep...

"It is only past the meridian of fifty

 that one can believe that the universal sentence of death

 applies to oneself.

At twenty we are immortal;

 at fifty we are too caught up in life

to think much about the end,

but from about fifty-five on

the inmost quality of life changes

 because of this knowledge. 

Time is suddenly telescoped. 

Life in and for itself becomes more precious

 than it ever could have been earlier...

it is imperative to taste it,

to savor it,

every day and every hour,

and that means to cut out waste,

to be acutely aware of the relevant

and of the irrelevant. 

There are late joys just as there are early joys. 

 Young, who has time to look

at the light shine through a shirley poppy? 

 The outer world is only an immense resonance

 for one's own feelings. 

But in middle age,

afternoon light marbling a white wall

may take on the quality of

revelation."

Savor the Day!

and

Memento Mori!

Yvonne