From Sparrows Fall, by Terry Lane
It’s amazing, when you think about it, how hundreds of people bounce off you during your lifetime, and many of them leave you with a way of looking at things, or an opinion, or a figure of speech, or a way of rubbing your nose when you are about to say something important, or one of the few jokes that sticks in your memory - and in spite of the fact that they have left this mark on you, you have no idea where they are today. You don’t even know if they are still alive. Friends, lovers, workmates, cousins - they all come and go and you are a little different after the contact than before, but after a brief encounter they go off in their own orbit and you never see them again. We’re pretty profligate with friends and lovers, when you come to think about it.
(Published: Pan Macmillan Australia 1995 - ASIN: 0330357131)

I wonder if the letter from the country Noxious Weeds Control Officer will be in the mail tomorrow, our first post since Thursday due to the Easter break?
[permalink][comment] - posted by Mez @ 4/21/2003 06:19:00 pm