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Morning walk: -1C/29F, feels warmer than that, breezy; Gusta was very keen this morning, lots of dogs (some huge ones!) out when we were . . . thankfully most of them were downwind from us and her eyes could not see what her nose could not detect . .
Night ends, day follows - as I drove home from gym, headlights poured like dreamy molten metal flow, down that hill, while behind them, band of pale pinkish/white split horizon from overcast night’s grip, to reveal a day worth using. Unconscious workings inside my brain now go to sleep awhile, I wake to witness life.
Wake up. Dream-time, done. Wake up, seek truth. Wake up, look everywhere. Solutions hide - fresh places, old angles, I tend to interpret all except the obvious - those issues plainly shown - because that is ‘as I am’, issues and view I strive most to avoid.
What then; what do I (or we) do and who are we present for, who are we acting for - our children, parents, an audience or are WE the audience - are we real, are we actors, or are they both one in the same?
Pssst! . . . Past, where lessons are kept, can teach. Really, looking forward, there is so little new to learn that has not already been learned - catalogued, recorded and archived. Still, we read the newspaper before a history book, horoscopes before wisdom quotes and we listen to our own old tapes rather than facing clear facts with sober logic because – as we all ought to know by now – it is our emotions, together with everything Freud and Jung had to observe, that drive us.
‘You change your mind, but you can’t change me.’ – Jim Croce
I can’t swim. No life-guard on duty; time to swim or sink, both feet, deep end of pool – and I plunge, into life, into mainstream, into the ditch, into work, into play, into passions, into despair – take your pick. Most of us pick only one at a time.
Look around - see how many people do more than one. Is that you? I think not. Most of us get single tracked, driven, on the path – without peripheral vision – one route/rut at a time, take your pick.
I’m workin’ day shift today, night shift tonight - my raw hands grab my instruments of change, tools and devices for steering, but before I examine what I am doing, shouldn’t I examine why I am doing it?
Works for me. What works for you?
THE LESS WE TRY
The more, or the less we try
interpreting life - like music
it is less about listening more,
than it is about feeling more.
It is less about feeling more,
than it is about being more.
We need to try more, to be more
present, than we are absent.
Mark Kolke
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