NOTE: I wrote this post in January 2021. While I'm not sure why I did not publish it then - probably thought I had more to say - when I came back today to re-re-start this blog, it seemed complete. And the video still moves me to tears.
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the first syllable already belongs to the past." Wisława Szymborska
Three days ago I turned 73. The future was on my mind as it has been a lot as the days of my life pass. I'll write about it I thought. What do I have left to experience? What has to be, regretfully, left off the list of my future? Can I change that future and, if so, how?
That's as far as I got. Certainly not enough to (re)start my blog. I wanted to look forward. And I really wanted to create distance from the pain and pandemic of 2020.
Then I discovered a beautiful video For The Sake of Old Times (1504.co/for-the-sake-of-old-times) and, as in life, my past and my future seemed equally compelling - even 2020. In the discovery was the knowledge that my future was about the sum of my past, what I could manage to control in the present and what choices I needed to make so that the rest of my life matched my dreams.
