Well yesterday had a good but general conversation (on the phone) with a close friend of mine, now living in the U.S. - then went on to report the conversation by email to another friend. At one time the three of us were very close, we grew up together and married around the same time, and now we are all apart. Now both friends live in the U.S.
In the email I wrote: Happy to say, she was coherent, on target, and great to speak to..but one could see that she would have good and bad moments…she was not able to use the computer to any great extent (which is sad as she was once so computer savvy). Is in a small kind of wheelchair, she says it’s called a transfer chair. But obviously she uses it all the time.
She was so sorry to hear Mac had died, said “dear Mac of the sparkling eyes” and then commented on how we were all getting there, so true. I told her you and Tom were in Calif. She sounded a bit on target there, but I know that she didn’t seem to take it in. but on the whole she was good, saying the kind of things that were easy, like “this place is perfect for us..we get great meals, they have two serving times, and it is a lovely location..etc.” altogether a good conversation, but I don’t expect she will call back or get into conversations about politics, or what is happening now for example she would have been the first to talk about the Syrian Crisis…oh well, we’ve all had a good life, and so must not get all sad about things that I can’t do anything about.."
Well the whole conversation and email put me in mind of a special day-long meeting ...sort of on Changes in Life. The leader said we should "stop resisting change"
Change of paths and passing on to new ones is the way it is and one must be open to change...fear, insecurity and doubt are part of this process and one should realize that "control" is an illusion - trust the God or spirit within us"
He gave a brochure with some interesting insights, which I think I will share in this and another blog later..but this one kind of poem speaks to me right now.
"Change Alone is Unchanging"
Whosoever wishes to know about the world
Must learn about it, in it's particular details
Knowledge is not intelligence,
In searching for the truth, be ready for the unexpected
Change alone is unchanging,
The same road goes both up and down,
The beginning of a circle
is also its end.
Not I, but the world says it:
all is one
Ad yet everything comes in season.
- Heraklietos of Ephesos
What we call a beginning is often the end,
And to make an end is to make a beginning
The end is where we start from.
We shall not cease from exploration,
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started,
And know the place for the first time.
-T.S. Eliot
In other words "be the change you wish to see in the world"
Is that it I wonder.well those were words that I'm still pondering,
g'day...
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