You Must Remember This

Ouarzazate
Originally uploaded by Hey Jack Kerouac.

You must remember this,
A kiss is just a kiss...
A sigh is but a sigh...

This is a pic from Ouarzazate, Morocco. I really like the color composition of the shot.

Morocco is also the home to the city of Casablanca. For those of you film fanatics out there, Casablanca is also a movie - it's a landmark of American pop culture, even though it's about a place somewhere else in the world far away from here.

I used to have an neighbor who grew up in Morocco when she was a teenager during World War II. She was a spunky, elderly widower who originally grew up in France. Her late husband was a sweetheart G.I. from the U.S. Army who was stationed in her hometown. She could tell stories about her life for hours. It amazed me how keen her mind and her memory was with respect to the details spun in her tales.

I wonder how good MY memory will be when I reach her age... I usually am forgetful of birthdays and anniversaries; sometimes I barely remember what I ate for dinner the night before!