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  • Reflections, Mirrors, Passages…

    Reflections, Mirrors, Passages…

    Every day we take for granted that which is around us, when suddenly, we can have things ripped into a different reality, or just news can make you think hard about what you take for granted.

    I look at my pictures from the past, and what I see in the mirror today, and I think, “how am I different now?”  Besides general aging, are my thoughts changing, bit by bit?  If what has happened to other people happens to me, how will I react or handle the situation?  We are always apt to have anything happen.

    Falling reminds me of this.  I fell inside the boat we were in, fishing, last week, foot slid out from under me when I went for the seat that moved out of my way when I was trying to get out of the way of a fish being caught – lots of action in a short period of time, lots of moving parts, then I went down to a painful conclusion!  And I fell, yesterday, my foot having become tangled in a cord under my chair, in a hurry, then straight down onto my other knee.  This happens fast.  Your body takes over.  Your mind is NOT in charge here.

    This time of year is a cluster of emotion for our family.  Definitely, people have been born, lived, died, and celebrated in this time frame – the harvest – then the celebration of life – holidays… every one, every year, on and on, and the trail of time weaving its life events throughout the labyrinth of occurrences…

    life stream

    It is all a bit of a journey – rivers flow, we flow, and we don’t really stop until we do…  And it can leave you feeling a bit flattened, at times.

  • There are times…

    There are times…

    Sometimes I sign on to do things, with great exuberance, after which I say, “what was I thinking?”  Not always, mind you, but sometimes it just happens that way.  It is a human thing, I believe, to want to do certain things that are new and exciting, but then you get into it and you think, “I really don’t want to do this.  It is not what I thought it would be like (doing this).”  We are poor estimators of things like effort and how much time it takes to do new things.

    Conceptually, we think that this takes this much time, the next part takes another amount of time, and so on.  Sometimes there is the unforeseen whatever that crops up and takes you down a rabbit hole where time really speeds up (or stands still, if you are waiting…) – or you get to where you have to do ten more things than you thought originally, just to get ready to do that one thing that you thought might take five minutes – instead it takes five days!  Argh!

    Right now time zips by.  It just does not seem that there is enough of it around.  I think that there is some sort of accelerator that is making my time clock speed up.  Seriously.  Every year goes by really fast.  I have heard other people talk about this, but I don’t think that I am ever going to understand it.

    Oh well, so it goes.  I suppose it is better than the alternatives – soak it up, right?

    Guess I had better get out from in front of this damned computer!  It will suck your brain away if you let it!