Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for January 30, 2020

You can’t change the past but you will change the memory. Make it a memory that doesn’t hurt.

It’s good to go back but accept what happened, and move on. People learn, and grow, and maybe it’s a good thing you’re not that person you once were…

But, eventually, you will come to value the impermanence of existence. You will know that loss only means that what you got for nothing, and went back to nothing, was worth having for the time it existed, where permanence would make it worthless and commonplace.

Well, the ‘rosy glow of retrospection’ should come with a warning: you will change your memory of something (cf. Superfrog, above), and that change is almost always an amelioration. A quirky, but perhaps understandable, part of human nature.

I know, I apologize. It’s like when Homer Simpson complained about Ziggy: it was getting too preachy.

I’ll be long gone

By the time you make up your mind

Good luck with your past

But it wasn’t built to last

I’m gonna get up and make my life shine

I’ve made up my mind… to make my life shine

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I’ll Be Long Gone- Boz Scaggs

“As Charlotte watched the headless turtle slowly creeping toward her, its giant johnson pointing at her autograph, she cursed the name of … Frog Applause™”

Baby it will always hurt, because the smash on my head with a cast iron skillet in our 7 11 store in the bread isle is a certain memory of mine.

Ongoing character building … then it all ends …

what’s next …? Emal spelled backwards …?

Wisely Teresa used a turtle, she knew an elephant wouldn’t work. Elephants don’t need to go back to remember. They remember everything, they never forget.

“Hurt” isn’t quite right. “Dismay, chagrin, embarrass” are closer.

Bullocks! Turtles are smart enough not to live in the past.

Pet regrets are especially painful.

Maybe so. But I favor the “no regrets” school of thought. Forward, at all times! No looking back, which only causes regrets….

Tomorrow might find me at last,

Turning my back on the past.

But time will tell of stars that fell,

A million years ago.

Memories can never take you back,

Home, sweet, home.

You can never go home any more.

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Justin Hayward

“Learn to forget the memories that cause you pain” (Moody Blues). Great idea but I think I need a teacher as I have not been able to learn that skill.

Calling Dr. Seldon! Calling Dr. Hari Seldon, Psychohistorian!

I left the cake out in the rain and will not ever have that recipe again.

One of the last times a turtle hung around here for too long, FA took an extended hiatus. No repeats on that, please.