Sunday musings… 2/17/19
Sunday musings…
1) Metier. Trade, profession, occupation. More so, something at which you excel.
Not necessarily trade, profession, or occupation.
2) Rigadoon. A lively dance for couples in duple or quadruple time. Pick a headline of the coupled. Any headline.
See also, “Flaneur”. Because: duple.
3) Hope. “Hope is a waking dream.” Aristotle
To have hope is to have a reason to go on. The dream, as it were, is worth following in the hope that one will see it fulfilled. At the same time hope can be a bad dream, one that must be abandoned in order that one can begin anew. After all, reality awaits as we awaken, however fervently we cling to our dreams.
4) Gray. Where did all of this gray hair come from? In 6 months I’ve become…ahem…distinguished. The actor William H. Macy: “Treat getting older as a success. Celebrate it.”
Guess I’m sporting my own “silver medal”.
5) Destiny. Our oldest child, The Heir, is at this moment on his way west, transporting his little family to a new beginning in Denver. Like so many young people before them he and his wife will seek their fortune in the New Territories, hundreds of miles from their families and the land of their youth.
To be sure we did this, Beth and I, and we understand all that goes into the decision. Seeing them off is bittersweet. They, like us at their age, are strikingly independent. A little part of our souls is stashed in their luggage, just in case they need us.
With the rising sun at his back the dawn of our family seeks his destiny just beyond our view as Beth and I contemplate the sunset.
I’ll see you next week…
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