Time and distance sometime reveal themselves to me when I sit in my room or at the end of my dock. Together, they invitingly uncloak the mystery of the deceptive illusion in which I live. I am not a solitary drop in the ocean; I am the ocean. I do not stare into the night sky; I am the night sky.
What an artifact of time and distance we have conspired to create. It is what we do to live together, but really we are one, joined forever in the time-less now. Occasionally, I get a small glimpse.
It has been over 30 years since I fell in love with my cabin’s site and got so emotionally involved. Over the years, I have replaced most of the cabin’s surface, the outside, the windows, the floor, the inside. I’ve built an annex with a composting toilet and a wood shed. But my heart clings to the trees, the land, the water, the view from the dock. I was nearly devastated when the storm blew down so many towering oaks. Now I smile to watch the young pines stretch to take their place.
When I am not there, I know that somewhere the wind blows thru a tall White Pine. I know that daily, a crowd of other pines are reaching enthusiastically to fill openings in the canopy. I know that every morning, the sun creeps over a horizon across a lake and sends an avenue of fire toward a dock. I know when I swim in a pool at the “Y” that there is a cool lake that holds me in its grasp and brings my skin alive.
I’ve been wondering what is happening in our little earth world. What gigantic mechanisms have we set in motion that we only faintly understand. I’m curious where this all is going. I’m fascinated by what I have been told about climate change. I’m alert to the unique surprises that pop up around many corners.
I am concerned that the changes have begun to usher in much suffering. People, animals, plants all console one another in their shared fate. I expect I will suffer too, but I will welcome the awe. I am curious about the beauty in the changes we have initiated, the awesome power we have chosen to unleash. We have been unknowingly guiding major forces in our little world and they are already in motion. So it must be time for me to get aboard and boldly ride into the future, eyes open, without caution or regret. I choose fascination over fear.
I am beginning this site because I found myself writing things down on a regular basis. I also noticed that I have been repeating some of those same things to friends after I wrote them down. So I decided to make those written items more accessible, for anyone who finds this site, for myself, and for any future exploration into their Father’s mind that my sons might undertake.
I intend that some thoughts be personal, what I know of the path that I am on, how it is affecting me, where I intend to go. Some thoughts will be more general, but still full of my perspective.
So, Welcome. For now, I am stumbling because I am still trying to understand and apply the software. I hope to keep it simple and easy for me to learn.
