Time Paradox

It has been said the time is an illusion. Well, yes and no. Time is a useful concept but impossible to define. Our measurements, days, years, hours, minutes, are constructs, a template we lay over a surface. A surface of what? Beats me. Eternity? Maybe, but again, that is a human construct.

Things do change and there does seem to be a pattern of cause and effect, but that is so comolex that we cannot possible keep track of what really causes what. Yet, we are born, grow old and die, at least the physical parts do. Still, if our essence, our soul continues past physical death, which it does in some form, what has really aged and died? An illusion? Sort of, but it is a persistent and lovely illusion.

You cannot time travel, yet, when you see the stars, they are no longer there since there light takes long light years to reach us. When you see a child, if you look the right way, you can see the adult he will be.

I guess the only thing to do is relax and don't worry about it. Observe time, just don't be trapped by it.

Words Fail

By necessity, this will be a short, simple post. My eyes are strained again. I love words. I enjoy the magic of conjuring images and telling tales with words. But, still, they are often woefully inadequate.

When it comes to speaking of matters of the heart, words cannot describe the feelings, the joy and the angst of falling in love, nor can the fully explain how, over years, those feeling morph from a rafing fire to a wonderfully warm glow.

In the sciences, physicists will tell you, when being honest, that we cannot conceive of what is going on at the quantum levels, even using our most abstract and precise language, mathematics. Biologists have no words to explain consciousness.

In theology, the matter is worse. Countless volumes have been written trying to descrine the Divine and our relation to our Creator and everyone has failed miserably. There are things that cannot be put into words and, as much as I love writing, I am learning to shut off the words and just enjoy the feelings.

Enjoying Nothing

Today, I find myself with nothing to say, nothing on my mind and nothing to do. You know what? Iy's great. What a joy it is to be free from thought for a little while. Oh, I'm sure that before the day is done, or at least by tomorrow, the World will step back in again, but for now, I am going to enjoy nothing. And, with full sincerity, I wish you nothing. Enjoy it.

Find Something to Hold Onto

Ties are weird and getting weirder. Anyone who is honest must see the signs. Now, I am not going to preach a sermon about coming Apocalypses, but I am going to predict that something really strange is in the near horizon and we all need to be ready. It may be awful or it may be wonderful. Most likely, it will be awful followed by wonderful, but we must get through the awful. Some folks will have hard time coping.

How do you hang on when everything is going wrong? That's a tough one and many just give up. Just witness the horrific suicide rate among veterans and the equally horrific opiate problem in the land. I can only give one piece of advice.

Find something you cherish and hang onto it. It can be anything, a human, a pet, a garden, a memory. Just find something or someone, from sometime in your life that always brings a smile to your face and warmth to your heart. Often, the memory or knowledge that somewhere in this odd world there is something good, something lovely, can save you from an ever spiraling sense of despair.

That may seem incredibly simple but, often, the best things in life are simple.