With the school year starting, and the days getting shorter, there is a feeling of getting back to the routine. Enough with the vacation out-of-the-office summertime mood, people around me are getting serious. What did I forget to remember?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I hadn\u2019t forgotten everything. I kept some of my stuff going. As my long-time readers know, I have a habit of consistency. I\u2019ll keep things rolling because I\u2019m stubborn like that. I\u2019ve been letting a few things get away from me, but then again I\u2019m still plugging away at most of my internal commitments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With the fall I\u2019m thinking of getting busy. Like the axis of the earth I\u2019m shifting to a new but traditional season, the long experience of starting school. Get up early, slip on the new shoes and the jacket and start it up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I remember that person. I was that person. What person am I now?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am thinking of sci fi episodes that feature crossing timelines. Did the \u201creal\u201d crew members accidentally encounter the \u201cevil\u201d version of themselves? The clue is usually a goatee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maybe the \u201creal\u201d me is that eager kid starting the fall with ambition and goals and I have become the evil me. Or maybe just the disappointing me. What are these shoes I\u2019m filling now? And did I really mean to collect all these houseplants?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It seems exciting at the time. I snipped the starts and grew them for years, tending and watering so they would get bigger. Most of them have bigger pots than they started in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And I am watering them. They are tough plants that can endure a lot. They are even bigger than the second pot and are falling over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Which leads me back to the intersected timelines. Do I want to stay in the universe that is committed to these plants? I am not sure I want to stay in this time line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not sure how to jigger the space-time continuum, but I am looking around with new eyes to see what doesn\u2019t belong here. I do know how to move those habits and objects out of my life. That\u2019s a start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
With the school year starting, and the days getting shorter, there is a feeling of getting back to the routine. Enough with the vacation out-of-the-office summertime mood, people around me are getting serious. What did I forget to remember? I … Continue reading