April 14, 2005

• Is
  much happening?  Always.  And if it doesn’t seem so, then
  that probably means that one’s outlook has ossified to compartmentalize
  all that’s happening into a strictly-budgeted routine or a limp of
  reality.

   

  Beware if the world seems to you unchanging, for it ever is aprowl with surprises.

   

  Take
  weather, for instance. The stupidest statistic the weather forecasters
  perpetrate is the ‘Normal’ high or low temperatures for any given day
  in a particular locale.  Such temperatures may be a mean average,
  but they are far from conferring normalcy to anything at all. 
  Changes in climate that I’ve seen, even in such a short span as my own
  lifetime, tell me there’s no ‘Normal’ nor will likely there ever
  be.  Some forecasts predict that the entire ice mass covering the
  North Pole will melt away by the year 2070.  I wonder if Santa
  will invest much in any sense of normalcy upon that eventuality.

   

  I think that only change is normal.And although, unlike Heraclitus,
  I do not believe that “All is in flux.” –always surrendering
  identity.  I do believe that flux underlies all things – pushing
  them onward with an evolving identity toward some destiny.

   

   -reflection just after running 5 miles in Dreamland (the cemetery).

   

  

  
  A
  ceramic artist mounts one of her birdhouses in Dreamland.  In
  talking with her, she made me aware that she's, too, quite a 'regular'
  in Dreamland, though she spends most of her time here nocturnally,
  sneaking in and out over a low fence after sunset and long after all
  gates are locked closed.

  
  

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