On Reminiscing

Shared by a friend --

There are words and faces and places that never lose their hold upon the heart.

They may be...faces that we may never see on earth again, places that we are seldom permitted to revisit; but they were once the scenes, the associates, the joy of our life; they had a controlling influence in training our aspirations and in shaping our future, and they can never be wholly forgotten. The flight of years cannot sully their innocence nor diminish their interest, and eternity will preserve them among the dearest reminiscences of earth.

We may meet and love other faces, we may treasure other words, we may have other joys, we may mingle in other scenes and form other associations, but these old familiar faces and these dear old familiar scenes remain invested with a fadeless beauty, sacred in their exemption from oblivion and decay.

~ from a book of women's reminiscences 
from the early days 
in the western mining towns

 

 Thankful for dear faces, old and new.

~ End Quote