Easter Sunday

 As I sit outside enjoying the sunshine; I want to wish everyone a happy and beautiful Easter.  I hope all are well and with loved ones.

Journey

 I have been thinking about finding my voice.  Again.  Inside my head I think I have found it.  In my heart I have doubt.  

I have a dream of being shown riches of rubies and emeralds inside a room in a mansion that feels familiar but just out of reach.

I awake thinking that the precious gemstones are mine if I can find my way back to the hidden room.  I focus on the gems mostly because of the riches they represent but I don’t see the search as the important part of the mystery.  

I think the room represents my innermost thoughts and the precious gemstones represents stories or writings which are waiting for me to find my way back to them.

My journey is on going.  I am searching for what is just out of reach.  What I seek is invisible and eternal.  It isn’t shining and easily found.  

I must find my way.  

My way.

Work

 Work.  It can drain all the joy from your day when you have to do something you don’t like or want to do.  I feel joyless today.   Work.

Truth

I was taught early in life to tell the truth.  “Always tell the truth even if it hurts.” 

 It does.  

 Our earliest social interaction with others pressured us to conform to the group.   To be part of the social group is where we learned that the truth isn’t wanted by many of  our peers.

We tell ourselves that we always tell the truth but over the years the world’s lack of concern for what is true wears us down.

I think what hurts is knowing we didn’t tell the truth all of the times we had the chance to.

Temporary Crown

 I had a crown replaced with a temporary one today.  The old one was over twenty years old and my gum had receded causing food to become stuck between my teeth.  

Now hours later, as the shots and the Novocain wear off I find myself worn out.  I feel like I fought a ten round fight and lost.  

It is only Monday.

2020 And Beyond

 Life never stays static.  Last year, 2020, was quite different and in my opinion unlike any that had come before it.  The pandemic has changed human interaction.  Two weeks to slow the spread turned into government overreach that seems never ending.

Now a year later, people are uneasy. Some are fatigued by social distancing, mask wearing and the whole thing.  Some are afraid of everyone and are basically hermits trapped in their homes. Somewhere in the middle resides most people.

It is here in the middle that most of us think we exist but the truth is we travel from pole to pole in our thinking sometimes in a matter of minutes.

Conversations about who has it or who “may have it” devolve into political beliefs.  One side decries follow the science while the other points out how the “science” has been flopping around like a fish out of water.

The change in thinking from innocent until proven guilty is where  the rubber meets the road.  Now, everyone is viewed with suspicion.  Stay away from people.  This goes against how we interact with each other.

Some will take the vaccine.  Some may and some will never take it.  Herd immunity is just over the horizon.  Is it?  Is this virus here with us like the flu?  A yearly booster shot?

I think what disturbs me the most is the realization that the government and the experts who we rely on are only looking out for their power over us citizens.  Their lust for control over our daily life is never ending.  

What say you?

Anyone Out There

 That is the question isn’t it.  I started this blog over ten years ago and a lot has changed since then.  For one, I am not on Facebook or Twitter.  I decided a while back that “social media”  was not very social anymore so I culled it from my daily life. 

One would like to think their writing will have broad appeal but the truth is I may never reach a large audience.  I mean, I stopped blogging for over ten years.  I am my worst critic and I self talk myself out of all kinds of things.  So I stopped.   

I am starting up again.  It really is that easy.  To borrow a slogan “just do it” 

If I write it will they come?  Will it matter to anyone out there?

Let me know what you think?