Don't Look Down

Dec
15th

Tue

There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South… Here in this pretty world Gallantry took its last bow… Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and their Ladies Fair, of Master and of Slave… Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered. A Civilization gone with the wind…

~Gone With The Wind (title card)

“Gone With the Wind” debuted 70 years ago tonight…

Rhett Butler:

There’s one thing I do know… and that is that I love you, Scarlett. In spite of you and me and the whole silly world going to pieces around us, I love you… I’ve loved you more than I’ve ever loved any woman and I’ve waited for you longer than I’ve ever waited for any woman…Here’s a soldier of the South who loves you, Scarlett. Wants to feel your arms around him, wants to carry the memory of your kisses into battle with him. Never mind about loving me, you’re a woman sending a soldier to his death with a beautiful memory. Scarlett! Kiss me! Kiss me… once…

Dec
8th

Tue

You pushed back the piano cover and laid your fingers on the keys

and that slightest pressure dropped a felt tipped hammer on my heart strings

there had been no song until that breath-held moment’s humming vibration

my unavoidable pulse shook the tear blurred camera focus

how did you know those notes then?

Dec
6th

Sun

His thoughts turned to poetry, that poetry which only the desert and its grand solitude can inspire. Gold and brown and sandy blue, turmoil and yet perfect physical order, the Earth’s surface sculpted by the wind, made to bend and shadow at the whim of each passing breeze and storm. Atop his sand dune, Ostragon felt the breath of Saint-Exupery on his back, showing him, like he showed the Little Prince, what an incomprehensible and yet delicate world it is we live in.

~Ozzie Ostragon

— http://www.ostragon.com/Home/china-2009/may-19

Indeed there is much about the Universe which we humans do not understand; and we are creatures of the Universe, born by it, melded by it, molded in its galaxies from its dust and its energy. There is much we know not about ourselves.

~Ozzie Ostragon

— http://www.ostragon.com/Home/china-2009/may-14

No one in Scotland can escape from the past.
It is everywhere, haunting like a ghost.

~Geddes MacGregor

Lord Aberdeen was quite touched when I told him
I was so attached to the dear, dear Highlands and
missed the fine hills so much. There is a great
peculiarity about the Highlands and Highlanders;
and they are such a chivalrous, fine, active people.

~Queen Victoria