Tick Tock Time Flies By
in the wink of an eye.
While I wonder about my future, how do I live through my present and do it well ?
Meaning, don't think about what will be , but what already is.
Live for now and don't bank on tomorrow.
I am very guilty of forward living.
It's been a horrible lifelong habit.
So today I spent time time cataloging my poems .
I have written 43 since January.
I am still working on 3 currently.
I usually write down word pairings that strike my fancy,then couple them and before you know it , a poem has been born.
The yard under the new lawn company's talented care looks splendid.
I put my star solar lights back up again , and even on a moon-less night the ; colors were beguiling and perfectly matched to Sarah Brightman's singing as I swam last evening .
Sophie surveys her domain.
posted by: judypatooote (reply)
post date: 08.12.05 (11:36 pm)
Cute picture of Sophie......is she a bassett or beagle?
I have been trying to accomplish one important thing a day.....I don't know how important, but like you sorting your poems.....I love poems. My kids are good at writing poems. And my father in law wrote a few great ones for his grand children......
posted by: Outlaw (reply)
post date: 08.13.05 (1:36 am)
Living in the present has ever been a challenge, but it's the only way I've gotten through Jim's death. In the early days if I allowed myself to look beyond the current moment I became undone at how long life would be without him in it. It's been quite useful to have learned that particular tool for coping with each change that has come along since.
I admit to some envy about your poetry...apparently mine lived only in my intense grief and words no longer come that make sense to my life now. On the other hand my prose seems to returned and I write something...no matter how small....daily. Strange.
As for the changes to come in your life, I know you will bloom where you are planted. Your sense of accepting the adventure of things to come is amazing.
posted by: apyjo (reply)
post date: 08.13.05 (1:05 pm)
Judypatooote,
she's both ; we call her a bagel !
She's 4 years old.
Alot of personality.
posted by: apyjo (reply)
post date: 08.13.05 (1:07 pm)
Outlaw,
your everyday writing is delicious. I look forward to your words everyday.
I can't always respond to each post , but know I have read each letter and enjoyed.
posted by: onebadjen (reply)
post date: 08.16.05 (7:33 am)
i live in the prsent as well, i swore i wouldn't dwell on the past... but somehow in the process killed any forward thinking as well.