Savoring, Cherishing, Remembering

"Just give me a little more time!

I want to love the things

as no one has thought to love them,

until they're worthy of you and real."

---Rainer Maria Rilke

"Because simply to be here is so much

and because what is here seems to need us,

this vanishing world that concerns us strangely---

us, the most vanishing of all. Once

for each, only once. Once and no more.

And we too: just once. Never again. But 

to have lived even once,

to have been of Earth---that cannot be taken from us."

---Rainer Maria Rilke