“Voted worst in show the last two years got a refill on my tears another bottle of foam yellowed clear. Old man twitching on the train reminds us of mortality the snow everywhere reminds us of the rain.”

“Nothing reminds us of an awakening more than rain.”

“We clung to books and to our friends; they reminded us that we had another part to us.”

“Death frightens us. When we see another person die, we are reminded that we are also mortal, that someday death will come to us. It is a thought we try to push from our minds. We are uncomfortable when another's death rudely intrudes into our lives and reminds us of what we will face at some unknown future date. Death reminds us that we are creatures. Yet as fearsome as death it is, it is nothing compared with meeting a holy God. When we encounter Him, the totality of our creatureliness breaks upon us and shatters the myth that we have believed about ourselves, the myth that we are demigods, junior-grade deities, who will try to live forever.”

“Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all.”

“A fine man", observed my sister, pouring mead for the two of us. "Well trained.”