Today is just another day.
And, yet, it isn't. As I've recently noted on Saturday Mornings , our family is ending 2021 in a rather disrupted fashion. On Monday, we proceed with a high amount of uncertainty on what 2022 will bring to us.
I know that uncertainty is a given (much more than we would like to admit). But, knowing about it (with my head) and facing it specifically (with my heart) can be two different things. It is hard not to notice that the prospects for the future are highly eclipsing our imagination of the past. In other words, 2022 is over-shadowing all that has been in 2021.
Normally, I take the end-of-year moment to reflect...quite a bit on the prior year. If nothing else, it brings me to a common and good question — what do I want in a new year?
It is easier to live in any other space than the current moment — we constantly try to anticipate the future, when we're not preoccupied with the past. So, unlike most of my 'Randoms...' entries, I've titled today's post 'NOT SO Randoms...' because today the thoughts are more directly linked to each other — they reflect the seemingly random conflation of the realities of any given day (today) with the questions (detailed and abstract) that focus tends to surface.
My 'Randoms...' usually have 3 observations and end with a question. This time, I'm starting with my question:
Do you ever have a sense that things are about to change in some significant way?
Sometimes life forces us to return to things that center us.
It is true that you can always do more; it is also true that you cannot do infinitely more.
That we even exist has impact; how we exist has even more impact.
Prior Randoms...
