My granddaughter belongs to a bookswaping forum and she sent me some of the quotes posts by a older gentleman with a lot of
insight into life. He passed away a few months ago. His name is Lester and they nicknamed him Lester Wisdom. They are compiling a booklet of his thoughts on life. Here are a couple of his musings.

On the meaning of life:

"I like to think of life - my life and Life, the big Life - as a tapestry or a huge painting. If you stand close to it, all you see is the individual threads, and you think, "What is this, this makes no sense, and the colors clash, and there's no pattern. This is ugly or stupid." It's only when you step back from the tapestry that you see figures emerge and the pattern becomes more clear... Sometimes it's better not to struggle endlessly over the why. Sometimes it's best to keep on walking, getting through the days, until we can put things into perspective better. There's no right way or wrong way, there's just the way that works for us. What gives us peace."
On grief:

"Odd, isn't it, how - just when you think you've put the grief for some loss behind you - grief sneaks up and slips the knife between your ribs. It can be a certain odor, or a song, or a sound. All of a sudden the grief is fresh again. I choked up in the middle of telling a funny story the other day, just because I saw a red pickup truck being driven by a fellow with a straw hat and a long beard, and it put me in mind of a friend who has been gone for, gosh, 30 years or more. It's all part of life, I guess. It's not silly at all, in my opinion. I guess it just shows that the love stays with us."