Carpe diem, tempus fugit

~ I actually enjoyed learning Latin in high school. I took two years of it on the recommendation of my father, who was a Latin scholar as a teen. ~

Ralph and I went to a wake last evening for the elderly mother of a friend of ours. It was really not a sad occasion. It developed into a rather boisterous gathering of family and long-lost neighbors reminiscing and talking, clearly happy to see each other and reconnect after many years had passed.

Yesterday was also the celebration of "Read Across America," an initiative aimed at inspiring children to develop a lifelong love of reading. The event is marked in schools each year on or around the anniversary of the birth of the late children's author Theodor Geisel, also known as Dr. Seuss, who died in 1991.

Seuss also had things to say about how time just slips through our fingers. I found this quote from him.

How did it get so late so soon?

It's night before it's afternoon.
December is here before it's June.
My goodness how the time has flewn.
How did it get so late so soon?

~Dr. Seuss

I can't answer that, can you?

If you ever feel a need to procrastinate...

... just make one of these seals.


It's fun to work on but it takes a l-o-n-g time, choosing among all the possible shapes, borders and colors and figuring out what message you want to convey. This is especially true if you are like me, and not too quick with this technical stuff.
To make one click here.
I must thank dear Mr. Curmudgeon over at Second Effort for introducing me to the site. Someday when I get my energy back I'll create another one.
That's a bamboo border, by the way.