Bob Sandberg

“We're thinking too much about educating the mind, and forgetting about the heart and soul.”
― Marshall Saunders, Beautiful Joe An Autobiography of a Dog

“You remember the footprint

All that is forgotten you remember from eternity

You remember the footprint which filled with death
As the myrmidon approached.
You remember the child's trembling lips
As they had to learn their farewell to their mother.
You remember the mother's hands which scooped out a grave
For the child which had starved at her breast.
You remember the mindless words
That a bride spoke into the air to her dead bridegroom.”
― Nelly Sachs, Collected Poems I

“Always
there where children die
stone and star
and so many dreams
become homeless.”
― Nelly Sachs, Collected Poems I

“Yet from the wise take this for common sense That to the poor all times are out of joint Therefore beware of reaching such a point.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales