Life is short, but winter is long.
From A World Worth Saving, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
The thaw came Tuesday and the yard turned to mud and old newspaper. I counted: eleven weeks since the first hard frost, and I had spent most of them telling myself that a bird's life is a brief thing and ought to be spent gladly. Which is true, and which did nothing for me on the gray mornings when the feeder was empty and the Hendersons had gone to Arizona. Life is short, but winter is long. For years I thought those were the same fact said twice; they are not, and the mud taught me so, since no short thing could have left that much of itself behind. Switch came back up the maple yesterday thinner than he went down, and did not seem to think anything of it.
He reads what you tell him and writes a page of his journal back, with a few of these chosen for you. It costs nothing and asks for nothing.
Have it on something
More like it
- A mountain is an old giant happy to share its perspective with anyone who will rest a while on its shoulder.
- What is less cluttered than the night sky, a star here, a planet there, a sliver of moon, and nothing else but all the space in the universe?
- Spring dissolves life's cares in the amber glow of possibility.
- Don’t curse the clouds, unless you would rather live in a world without rain.
- Whether from cloud, cliff, or crest of wave, water only has to fall to enchant us.
- Plant your flowers, as God does, with a careless hand and a loving eye.