Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truth, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be deluded, life, to compare it with such things as we know, would be a fairy tale and the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments. --Henry Thoreau
Friday, March 15, 2013
Overwhelmed
As we entered the Colorado Railroad Museum, five-year-old grandson Andrew--overwhelmed by the sight of acres of railcars and engines and then experiencing the loud gongs of the bell, an ear-piercing whistle and the scary hiss of escaping steam from an engine pulling railcars of passengers about to leave the station--enthusiastically shouted with fingers plugging his ears, "And they don't even know how much I love trains."
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