Our neighbors had a minidisplay of fireworks, a part of which I captured by video when I finally remembered where the camera phone was.
Happy Memorial Day
Thanks for the memories.
Monday, May 30, 2011
Mem Day
In honor of Memorial Day I am reading Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer about "the art and science of remembering everything", and a "subculture of competitive memorizers". Reminds me of medical school.
Our neighbors had a minidisplay of fireworks, a part of which I captured by video when I finally remembered where the camera phone was.
The Lady Slippers are sneakily blooming in a patch above the lake house. They and a million mosquitoes.
Our neighbors had a minidisplay of fireworks, a part of which I captured by video when I finally remembered where the camera phone was.
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-No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
ReplyDeletePlato
-Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good.
Friedrich Nietzsche
-I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory!
Audrey Hepburn
-A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
Elbert Hubbard
-Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
Andre Gide
-A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
John Henry Newman
-Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
Washington Irving