Does anyone remember that movie, "Just Like Heaven", starring Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo? The spirit of a woman in a coma appears to a landscape architect who has rented her apartment until she recovers or dies. Well, of course, she recovers - that's part of the action - but she doesn't remember him. She meets him when she returns to her apartment where he has created a rooftop garden for her. They touch as she shakes his hand to thank him and she remembers, recalling in swift flashbacks some of the nicer moments they shared. I bought the DVD part of the bonuses included similar flashbacks of her memories, but bad ones that could have turned her completely off.

That happens to me sometimes at night.

I'm lying awake and some of the bad memories float up, dispelling sleep. Does that happen to you? Does it depend on what you had to eat, or drink, or on how hot or cold or tired or worried you are? Did the wind change direction? Did someone walk on your grave? Ah, what's that line: "There's nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so"? Oh dear, I have to look it up...

Well, what did we ever do without Google? Actually, we got along. I missed only one word: either. "There's nothing either good or bad..."

It's true, though, and it seems to depend on my mood at the time of recall, whether a good memory comes up, or a bad one. They are all in there, in the movie of my mind (just like heaven).