It's August...my birthday month...summer is two-thirds over. It was nice yesterday...warm, light breeze and cloudy. Yesterday's lunch began with dessert...Dairy Queen caramel sundae! Home made spaghetti was the main course with salad. Today...cold and rainy describes it best!
Things are progressing with the purchase of the house...slower than I would like, but it looks good. Fingers still crossed!
I didn't post Thursday and Friday because I had a bout of illness...not covid or the flu...bathroom adventures probably describes it better than anything else. But I am feeling fine now and the packing continues although there really isn't a lot left!
Monday's focus is a question to ponder. I don't really have a question but rather something for you to consider. It began with last Unitarian Universalist Church Service of the current pastor who was leaving. An event calling for both endings and beginnings.
One of the references read was Parker Palmer's Poem 'Everything Falls Away' which I have added below. It's a poem which allows each of us to look at who we are at our core. Some may think it's sad but I think it is comforting because it enables the reader to understand that what is truly important is who we are. And that reality is intertwined with all the came before us and will continue with what comes after us. It helps us to understand what is really important.
"Sooner or later, everything falls away.
You, the work you’ve done, your successes, large and small, your failures, too.
Those moments when you were light, alongside the times you became one with the night.
The friends, the people you loved who loved you, those who might have wished you ill, none of this is forever.
All of it is soon to go, or going, or long gone.
The thread that strings together all you’ve been and done, the thread you didn’t know you were tracking until, toward the end, you see that the thread is what stays as everything else falls away.
Your life never was the solo turn it seemed to be.
It was always part of the great weave of nature and humanity, an immensity we come to know only as we follow our own small threads to the place where they merge with the boundless whole.
Each of our threads runs its course, then joins in life together. This magnificent tapestry—
this masterpiece in which we live forever." ~Parker Palmer
Take a few moments and think about the poem...
Talk with you tomorrow...