Ginger Magnum

Begin at the beginning’ the King said, very gravely, ‘and go on till you come to the end: then stop.’ LEWIS CARROLL (1832-98)

I dwell with a strangely aching heart … —  Robert Frost,  from “ Ghost House ,

I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind. —  Ecclesiastes 1:14

"But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in the old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and steal. It is a fool's life, as they will find when they get to the end of it, if not before." —Henry David Thoreau,  Walden , 1854