If I Could Save Time A Bottle Is As Good of Place as Any

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When you’re having a great time, what a wonderful concept, to be able to save time in a bottle and spend them with those we love.

For those of you like me who loved this song when we were young, we know it hasn’t worked. And maybe that’s good. What if we saved so much time that we never met the new friends that come along our paths later in life?

Sometimes we would like to poke the bad times into a bottle, and save them to turn them into good times.

For someone this place represents a very bad time, but for us it was a chance to view the beauty of time and honor and respect those who passed here before us even though we never met them. So who are we to even judge what the bad times are?

We saw the beautiful church where they worshipped. We might say it has withstood the tests of time, but the building lives, too. The stones and mortar age slower than the hands that placed each rock carefully on the next one, but time has marked it.

Some of the beautiful pictures from our time at the little church in Wailea, Maui age even faster than we do. Many would say they are the most beautiful of all.

If I could save time in a bottle, this would have been one of the moments I would have saved to replay over and over.

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the eternal traveller says:

February 7, 2016 at 11:48 am

Wonderful memories of a lovely day together. I hope we get to do it again sooner rather than later.

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- tchistorygal says:
  
  February 7, 2016 at 12:37 pm
  
  I agree. I’m saving time in my bottle right now! 🙂
  
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anotherday2paradise says:

February 7, 2016 at 6:20 pm

One of my favourite songs. Lovely gentle post, Marsha. The photos are lovely. 😘

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- tchistorygal says:
  
  February 7, 2016 at 10:30 pm
  
  Thanks Sylvia.
  
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diannegray says:

February 7, 2016 at 9:36 pm

I love that song, too Marsha 😀 What lovely pictures these are xxx

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katharinetrauger says:

February 8, 2016 at 7:30 am

I’m pretty sure I would lose the bottle…

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- tchistorygal says:
  
  February 8, 2016 at 11:27 am
  
  LOL I never thought of that! I KNOW I WOULD!!!
  
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  - katharinetrauger says:
    
    February 8, 2016 at 8:49 pm
    
    I’m pretty sure Jim Croce was traveling to a concert that we had tickets for when he fell…
    
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    - tchistorygal says:
      
      February 9, 2016 at 2:36 am
      
      Kerplunk, and there it went. Bummer. I loved his voice!
      
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rommel says:

February 13, 2016 at 11:33 pm

My blogposts are my bottles. 🙂 It looks like this one’s a really good bottle for you. 😉

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- tchistorygal says:
  
  February 14, 2016 at 12:59 pm
  
  They really are. Good observation! Happy Valentine’s Day, Rommel. 😀
  
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