If you suffer, it is not because things are impermanent. It is because you believe things are permanent. --Thich Nhat Hanh

This is a really fitting quotation for me right now, because I have recently sufferend a great loss-- my Diary. I also lost my Powerbook G4, my flash drive, my memory card reader, my film camera, among other things. But, the hardest loss of all of these was, by far, my Diary. And, so I reflect on this quotation sadly and quietly mourn the loss of something dear.