Because it’s over, smile because it happened

Seen on a memorial bench on the Capital Crescent Trail 

 Because it’s over

 Smile because it happened

 

Seen on a memorial bench on the Capital Crescent Trail 

Moderation in the service of moderation is no vice.

 Said to an old friend. 

Sorry I’m late. I didn’t want to come.

Seen on a tee-shirt for sale in Key West. 

 If we don’t call things what they are, then we are surely lost.

Me

Our reason to be here

Soon, oh soon the light
Ours to shape for all time, ours the right
The sun will lead us
Our reason to be here

Yes, The Gates of Delirium, (Part Three, "Soon")

Thinkest thou that now, for the first time in an evil age, Wisdom hath been assailed by peril?…. The host of the wicked is many in number, yet is it contemptible, since it is under no leadership, but is hurried hither and thither at the blind driving of mad error. 

Boethius, On the Consolation of Philosophy