We’re supposed to get another foot of snow tomorrow. There goes Monday!
For the last few days, it’s been around 40 degrees in the afternoon, and there’s been a ton of melting. The mud is horrible in places. You can step on what looks like solid ground and watch your foot moosh down ankle-deep. Tonight will change all that. It’s back to normal nightime lows (10 degrees F.), then snow by morning.
Snow, snow, snow. And MUD! But of course, this is reason to celebrate. It means that water has entered the landscape. In just a few months, the air will be charged with the scent of plum blossoms, and the hummingbirds will be back. Before you know it, the dust will blow. (Ah, spring.)
With that in mind, I saw the following on an Eckhart Tolle calendar at Borders in Santa Fe a few days ago. It’s really a very fine litle summary:
Nothing ever happened in the past;
it happened in the Now.
Nothing will ever happen in the future;
it will happen in the Now.
Boy, do I like that. When you feel it, everything changes.
UPDATE: Uh…9:00 a.m., no snow, no disappointment.
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I remember as a child during WWII listening almost every evening to a radio commentater named Gabriel Heatter. On special occasions he would utter, “Ah, there’s good news tonight”.
Well, there’s good news today! John seems to have become optimistic once again even with the looming threat of more snow and more thawing mud. He speaks well of the symbolic rise of Obama: don’t we all look forward to 2009 sans Bush and the daily fare of fear, arrogance, corruption and incompetence?
Incidentally, John has posted yet another stunning desktop theme on FOTOFEED. I refer of course to the jays.
On a much more personal note, I’m ecstatic upon learning from the doc that I will NOT have to undergo anal surgery–Ouch! even thinking about it.
Thank you for your generous words, Byron, and congrats on the diagnosis!
As a matter of fact, I AM optimistic, and thank you for grasping the symbolism of the Obama phenomenon, which I regard as indicative of a possible larger overall shift.
It started with the winter solstice, I think. And I really do think everything is going to be fine, so long as one casts off the chains that bind one to old, worn-out ways. Tradition and history are not our friends any more.