from "memento mori" to a phoenix rising
sickness to recovery

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

we all fall down

Ring around the rosie
Pockets full of posie
Ashes, ashes
We all fall down


I loved this rhyme as a kid.  Hours of my childhood were spent holding hands in a circle and twirling and falling down and giggling like mad.  Then I grew up.  I don't know if it's true that this is about the black plague, but I hope it is.  It takes on new meaning as you get older - pray around a rosary, fill your pockets with flowers and hopes and loves and all that stuff, but eventually, you're going to die.

Memento mori.  Remember you must die.  

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