A Change of Season

The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca



This past week I have watched the world around me change. I've sat in the cool Autumn air and participated in something special. The beauty of changing leaves. Leaves fluttering through the air, canvasing the sky. All is quiet. I have had too much time to think, my mind racing and wandering at every turn. So amidst this confusion and beauty I stand as the world spins around me. I stand before you a man, a dreamer, a hopeful romantic.

Sometimes during the beauty and awe of a situation, we forget the underlying truths, that as wondrous as these now falling leaves are, they are falling. Once the leaves have given their beauty to the world, and the trees lay empty the leaves remain on the ground, forgotten until the next chapter. It's a reminder of frailty, of how quickly we can lose something that moments before we took for granted. I love the sound of falling leaves. I love the colors. But all is growing cold now, winter is fast approaching and the world is receding into its shell, preparing for the hard times ahead.

I will stand and face the cold, no jacket on my back, or shoes on my feet. I have been doing my best to embrace this change of season, I have watched the leaves around me fall. I Have tried to gather them together into a pile, but each day there are more to clean up. Eventually, there will be no more leaves to rake, no more leaves to fall, and we will be left with barren trees and frosted Earth. I'm not sure if I yet welcome that eventuality for as long as there are leaves to rake, Autumn is not over.

I am not yet prepared for winter, but will do my best to shoulder the cold.


The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.
--Norman Douglas



Be well unto others, and yourselves.

JD

Quote

Watch your thoughts, they become your words. Watch your words they become your actions. Watch your actions they become your habits. Watch your habits they become your character. Watch your character it becomes your destiny. -

Lao Tze

Yeh

Dragonfly out in the sun you know what I mean, don't you know
Butterflies all havin' fun you know what I mean
Sleep in peace when the day is done, that's what I mean
And this old world is a new world
And a bold world
For me

You know how I feel
It's a new dawn
It's a new day
It's a new life



Not really a quality post but, yeh.

Be well Unto others, and yourselves

JD

Our Future

-------Things are going to slide, slide in all directions-------
--------------------Won't be nothing--------------------
-------------------------------------Nothing you can measure anymore-------------------------------------
--------------The blizzard, the blizzard of the world--------------
------has crossed the threshold------
--------------------------and it has overturned--------------------------
-----------------------------------the order of the soul-----------------------------------
-----------------------When they said REPENT,-----------------------

I wonder what they meant?

Leonard Cohen-1992



I have been thinking a lot about the future, not specifically my future but our future. Life and the World.

The future of the world.. 

What will it be? 

       I hear broken conversations on the street, bits of telecasts, and people preaching for repentance at my own school. I see crumbling homes, polluted water, dusty air with no end in sight. I see this and yet, I keep passing it by, commenting and even writing about it. I try in many ways to make a difference, and I know I succeed. I make actions everyday to improve the quality of life, and our world. 

How many times have you commented on the state of our world? 

What have you seen that made you think twice about its condition?

When have you tried to make a difference?

There are many out there who do, have, and continue to fight. Their actions are commendable. Their will is absolute. Their drive....... is that of OUR world. They fight to keep it strong, even at the expense of themselves.  They continuously try to make it better, not just for themselves but for our future. It's impressive. Thinking about that makes my heart well, it fills me with a passion to fight a bigger cause. I am only one person, one man, with one will, strong and absolute. Together though, joined with the will of many, power grows. It gleams. One action at a time. One day at a time. One year at a time. One moment at a time. Hmm......Time. Time marches on, even if our future halts. Here's a riddle from a sweet ass book that I read as a boy.
This thing all things devours:
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town
And beats high mountain down.

We all have to try and change the world, make it better, keep it strong, all for the sake of our future. If we don't, who will?

It's time, for me to make a difference. It's time for you to make a difference. Maybe you already are, maybe you have and maybe you will.

Either way, It's Time.

Be well unto others, and yourselves.

JD