Not Yet a Lifetime… February 26, 2015
For years I’ve had this picture of me wedged in between two bluestones of stonehenge hanging in the pantry above the freezer across from shelves stacked with food and boxes of clutter accumulated throughout my lifetime. The picture would have stayed there, but for a conversation with a younger friend which wandered on to the topic of Stonehenge, which we each had visited; albeit decades apart. He wasn’t even born when I crawled up the rocks… By the time Brian got there, the stones were roped off. I guess nowadays people don’t even get close enough to touch the stones. How fast the world has changed! How quickly our spirits fly through this realm of consciousness! I remember back to the fifties and fishing with my Dad and brother. The fish were bigger then and much more numerous. And when my father was a boy in Minnesota very few species of fish and animals were endangered. But progress takes its toll. So back to the photograph. I took the picture out of the pantry to Michaels art supply to have it reframed. It is now hung in my office POD. The POD is where I sleep when “all-nighters” are required to get our briefs written, filed, and served. Back in the years when the picture was taken my “all nighters” involved sleepless nights of study or party; depending on the circumstances of the day. I can’t nor do I want to forsake my sleep anymore. I never thought then that I would … Continue Reading