Yesterday's Conversations

Sometimes things stick in your mind and just won't leave. Given that I have the memory of a goldfish which is... Er. Let me see. I've forgotten. No. It's seven seconds. Anyway given that, it 's remarkable that one clause from Jen's blog My Moments entitled breathe to forget, breathe to forgive has stuck in what passes for my mind and just won't go away.  It's a wonderful clause.

I grasp at the smoke of the conversations from yesterday.....

Dream It. Do It.

I have been wandering in and out of Jen's blog Jennifer Photography for some months now. It's an excellent blog but I am afraid of getting sucked into too many more blogs because I have only 18 hours a day available to me!! Yesterday Scriptor gave her a very well-deserved award for photographic excellence. That made me return to her blog primarily to make a comment but I wandered further.

I used to have reasonable tourist German from my many stays there but, although I could work out the words, I could not work out the meaning of the Goethe quote on Jen's blog. Today I decided to apply my mind to it. The translation programs didn't help me. The quote is: Was immer du tun kannst oder wovon du traeumst - fange es an. I have now worked out that it translates as: Whatever you can do or whatever you dream, begin it.

That's not usually my problem. I begin lots of things that I can do and lots of things that I dream of being able to do. My problem is finishing the projects once started.