Around the banks

“Please allow me to wipe the slate clean. Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom. Think of love as a state of grace, not the means to anything, but the alpha and omega. An end in itself.” From: (“Love in the Time of Cholera” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez) The Colombian born writer, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, born in 1927, won the Noble Prize for Literature in 1982.  The title of one of his most famous works, “Love in the Time of Cholera,” which was later made into a motion pictur