Mythos & Marginalia

2015 – 2025: a decade of days


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  • the impetus

    It is all-too-easy to go with the flow, to become comfortable, even complacent, on the path you have chosen (or ended up on).
       To exist can seem so natural, but oh-so limiting.
       We all have, or had, dreams and desires.
       We all have (or did) have plans or goals that have done nothing but end up collecting dust over the years.
       These intentions sit latent in a static state; still dreams, but they have no pulse.
       You may have even forgotten what you once wanted to do. How satisfying is that? There is no progress. There is no movement; there is hardly a shadow of what, at one time, seemed like such an exciting, inspiring idea.
       What happened?
       Instead of questioning why the impetus of the idea stopped, question instead why you stopped moving forward. The answer itself may be the inspiration you need to get going.
       Pick up those once-vivid pans and put them into action. Forward is more than a direction.
       Get moving.

    05/21/2023                                                                                                               j.g.l.

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    05/19/2023                                                                                                                                                      j.g.l.05/18/2023                                                                                                                                         j.g.l.

  • Mondays are just young Fridays

    Routinely we are focused on what is ahead.
       As we continue striving to move forward, and we do or we try, we seem to be living in the shadow of what has happened or going through the motions of making it happen.
       Somehow the process of progress is so ingrained in us that we fail, or fear, taking the time to simply be in the present. Instead of living in the moment, we are truthfully loosing the moment by not paying attention to where we are.
       I noticed Saturday.
       On the way to an appointment, and realizing I was earlier than I intended (or needed) to be, I stopped half a block away and sat for a moment to collect my thoughts.
       I looked above me to the tree I was enjoying the shade of, now fully leaved in the resplendent greens of spring. A week back, if I even noticed as I walked on, the tree at the time was, like me, simply trying to get by.
       I can’t recall.
       I hadn’t bothered looking up or looking around.
       I didn’t take the time to check in with my surroundings
       It is sad really, we all seem so pointlessly busy and caught up in the process.
       If we are all hoping for progress, we should at least take the time to notice.
       Take a little time today to simply be.

    05/15/2023                                                                                                            j.g.l.

     

  • what moves you

    There is always a reason,
    there always was.

    A motivation, the initial
    inspiration, an explanation,
    interest, enthusiasm or a
    passion (even obsession):
    what moves you?

    It is a drive. But why?

    More than the where or
    the when, the why began
    the all-consuming interest.

    We all have our reasons.
    We all have our wonders.
    We all have our why.

    Remember the why.
    It is still within you.

    05/12/2023                                                                                        j.g.l.

  • joy of spring

    Through the winter and all
    those weeks waiting and
    anticipating that which will
    bring the joy of spring for
    such a scant moment and we
    want to rush time as we do
    nothing but hope for it all to
    arrive with the progress so
    slow and the results so spare
    for days and days we crave
    sunlight and heat or tolerate
    April showers for the sake of
    May flowers as if the month
    will make a difference to our
    lives and then the days you
    realize indeed it does and now
    you only want to slow it all
    down for more than a little
    while and enjoy the blessings
    eager tulips bring a mad world

     

    05/09/2023                                                                                                          j.g.l.