"For us, our house is not insentient matter—it has a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals, and solicitudes, and deep sympathies; it is of us, and we are in its confidence, and live in its grace and in the peace of its benediction. We never come home from an absence that its face does not light up and speak out its eloquent welcome—and we can not enter it unmoved."
—Mark Twain, 1896
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Sunday, January 8, 2012

Journal entry

I have no idea why I’ve been reminiscing so much. It’s probably an age thing. The older we get, the stronger the pull from what went before, and the more we don’t want to disappear without someone knowing who we were. I suppose the small reflections bandied about here and there, are all we have left to give to the ones who’ve ever loved us.

I know young people aren’t really interested, chalking it off as, she’s just senile. Pay her no mind, but it’s a race, you see. The longer I visit my past and share it with you, the more of me will live on, and the longer it will take the reaper to find me.  Keep that in mind the next time an old person begins with, when I was young …..

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