Growing Versions

This door has a keyhole, but the key is long gone.  The need for it to have a key is long gone too. A door that was designed to be locked now stands open.  I pass through several times a day, never once thinking about needing a key. I have a lot of those. Keys without locks and locks without keys.    How about you?

...about how I could fly and slide." When was the last time I thought like that? I overhear her talking about how to build a website dedicated to creating fairies.  The project has been rejuvenated. When was the last time I planned a project like that? When will be the next time?

Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties. -James Jeans  

“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”  -John Steinbeck Thanks to a ferris wheel and budding tree flowers, I looked up.  Tilting my chin upwards, smelling a world that is beginning to have a scent of soil again and I lengthened.  The fug of early spring made me forget the blue sky. Seeing the sky, way up there, and the planes streaming through it, surprised me. How about you?

I get so boring when I am worried about something, probably because during those times I feel like I'm on a very long tedious train trip, spiked occasionally by flashes of fear. I feel like I am travelling around and around in circles, trying to circle my way out of what might, if someone else were looking at it, be a straight forward problem.  I would not know because I'm staring straight ahead, without looking out the windows much.  During these times of stress, I long to board at the station and pull up to the next one and just get out and go about my business.  But no, when I get going, I am like a fish in a bowl. Every time I see the castle, a glimmer of a solution makes me catch my breath and then turn my head away to look for a new one. This cannot be the one, there must be something more magnificent, more perfect, more accessible. I love to travel but times like these I wish I could challenge myself to see where the train is taking me and  consciously ch...

It has happened often enough, but somehow I keep forgetting.  Sometimes I just need to do some shower thinking. You know, when you need to get up from a math problem or a love problem or a budget problem and just walk away?  I walk away and take a shower, brush my teeth, and wash some dishes.  Usually, I do this initially out of sheer frustration, not intention. But then, guess what?  Before I have even sat down again, I will have solved that problem in a way I never ever could have in the way that I was thinking about it before. I have an answer. I have a way of answering the question, if I just give myself a chance.