To the past and the present and the future

I didn't take any photos today...I was busy being the dog/kids chauffeur. I had to pick up the girls in Middletown and then jet over to Mom's house to take her dog back (we dog-sat this past week).

So I thought I would leave you with one of our wedding photos and a poem that I love.

I know it's not high falutin' literature, but this poem grabbed me the first time I read it in Lord of the Rings, and it still rings in my head all these years later.

I Sit and Think

I sit beside the fire and think

of all that I have seen,

of meadow-flowers and butterflies

in summers that have been;

Of yellow leaves and gossamer

in autumns that there were,

with morning mist and silver sun

and wind upon my hair.

I sit beside the fire and think

of how the world will be

when winter comes without a spring

that I shall never see.

For still there are so many things

that I have never seen:

in every wood in every spring

there is a different green.

I sit beside the fire and think

of people long ago,

and people who will see a world

that I shall never know.

But all the while I sit and think

of times there were before,

I listen for returning feet

and voices at the door.

JRR Tolkien