Purchased a long time ago for 35 cents from Hatch’s Gifts; or maybe I bought the 3 for a dollar bookmarks with sayings on them. I don’t remember, but this book mark, embossed on a silk ribbon with a green fenced silk tree on the top and a brown silk cabin with brown smoke, and green trees on the bottom, all mounted on plastic with a pretty bright green tasseled silk rope ribbon, hanging from a hole punched in the top.

I am presently using this bookmark while reading Ruta Sepetys #1 NYT best seller winner of the Carnegie Medal. A book called Salt to the Sea – suggesting on the cover, “Those who are gone are not necessarily lost”.

My interest on this day, however, is on this bookmark that says,

“I expect to

pass through

this world but

once.

Any good, therefore, that I

can do or any kindness

that I can show to my fellow

creatures, let me

not, defer nor

neglect it for

I shall not pass this way again.”