Every garden leaves the traces of its origin in the gardener, which means that it's hard to look at even the maturest beds and borders without remembering the digging and planting and waiting it took to bring them to this point.
I don't think I can ever look at pen and paper or soap and water without remembering all the good that these generous contributions have already done.
Few Westport theatergoers can see "Of Mice and Men" without remembering that Paul Newman had been set to direct it but dropped out for health reasons.
One of the few benefits of growing old and dim, I remind my friends, is that we'll all be able to watch "Law and Order" over and over again without remembering if we've seen it.
I never think now about Kitty's frustrations, or the terrible suffering of Anna as she is forced to choose between her lover and her child, without remembering the long trudge up the hill to La Mola, and the sense of peace as I sat on the terrace eking out the last pages in the fading light.
Time after time, I've stepped off the tractor and started working without remembering to take off the muffs.
Maybe she could live with poor misunderstood Paul and his six kids, and the lad we met who loved Eminem so much he'd had "SLIM SHADY" tattooed on his right and left arms, without remembering he was left handed so his natural arms-folded pose spelled out the nonsensical phrase "SHADY SLIM".
One can remember that so-and-so happened to her without remembering the event, the experience of it, or anything else 'from the inside', to use Shoemaker's useful metaphor again.
AMANDA BRANDLEY Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting.
Additionally, this poor habit makes you appear sloppy – it may be that you'd have wanted to stand by your word, but you were absent-minded and simply moved along without remembering.
