Time keeps on slipping

The Steve Miller band penned Time keeps on slippin slippin into the future.
Yesterday I woke up and wondered how September had arrived in the blink of an eye.
Time is free, but it's priceless.
You can't own it, but you can use it.
You can't keep it, but you can spend it.
Once you've lost it, you can never get it back. Anon

Jim Croce tried to capture time in a bottle.
He articulated the dread we feel as we wait in anticipation for things we desire; yet once it comes, time passes all too quickly. We are told that the past is gone, the future is unknown so live in the present. This is ever more true given the challenges of COVID affecting every aspect of our lives.  

You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, then you're PUSHING 40. Whoa1 Put on the brakes, it's all slipping away. Before you know it, you REACH 50 and your dreams are gone. George Carlin

We can’t control time but we can control how we choose to spend it. Choose wisely.

In Memoriam

The darkest moments of our lives are not to be buried and forgotten, rather they are a memory to be called upon for inspiration to remind us of the unrelenting human spirit and our capacity to overcome the intolerable. -  Vince Lombardi
 
We pause to honour  the spirits and lives of those that have come before. 
Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.-  L.M. Montgomery for their memories are the fuel we burn to stay alive. – Haruki Murakami
 
In my interview with Bloomberg this week I shared that I dwell in possibility. - Emily Dickinson

The ancients said ‘he who has hope has everything’ and I live in hope that humanity will prevail. For “Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future. - Desmond Tutu  The past can’t be changed but the future is in (y)our power. Mary Pickford  

Facing the Future

My lips are chapped from the winds of change. Sarah Vowell

Slowly restrictions are being lifted and we emerge to a new way of being. Social distancing is a norm so is the taking of temperatures, zoom calls, alcohol gel and wearing a mask in public.  I look towards the future, dwelling in possibility. Emily Dickinson  for it is no more uncertain than the present. Walt Whitman
We can choose to face to the future with apprehension or anticipation. Jim Rohn. Robert Frost says, in three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life.  It goes on.

Winston Churchill said it was wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see. This is particularly true given the the fluidity of change. The same winds blow on all of us. of disaster, opportunity and change. It is not the blowing of the wind but how we set our sails that makes the difference. Jim Rohn

This week I invite you to accept the past without regrets, the present with confidence and the future without fear anon.The past can't be changed but the future is in your power. Mary Pickford for there are  far better things ahead than what we leave behind. CS Lewis

Faith, trust and pixie dust.

Faith is like the little bird that can feel the light and sing when the dawn is still dark

The sheer joy and awe of a wild animal trusting you enough to feed from your hand  requires patience, stillness of mind and body and an open heart. 

Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks. -Isaac Watts  If you do not trust life to unfold, the mind takes over and it becomes a game of strategy, motivated by anxiety. - Mooji

Our bodies convey 65% of our message, thus actions speak louder than words.  We trust movement. Life happens through events not words. Anon  Begin with an open heart  and you can learn to trust life, it will trust you back. - Dharma 

 Then have faith and trust yourself. You must also trust and believe in people or life becomes unbearable. Anton Chekhov  Finally, Be willing to take the next step not knowing where it will lead you. If you do, it means you are ready for any new possibility. - Sadhguru.

This week I invite you to open our hands, our hearts, our minds to trust ourselves, each other and the universe.

Transitions - connecting chapters in our lives

Transitions

Tomorrow I will be in Atlanta watching my son graduate, already the emotions range from intense pride to relief.  The wheel of life rolls on.  It seems only yesterday we were playing in the paddling pool, doing scouts, making forts and dressing as pirates.  He is ready.

To raise a child who is comfortable enough to leave you means you have done your job. They are not ours to keep but to teach to soar on their own. Anon

I find myself with an empty bedroom, tidied for his return or the occasional visitor.  Our memories are forever, our relationship is now one of equals and he knows the door and my heart is always open. 

Parents can only give good advice, or put them on the right path but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. Anne Frank

Both of us can walk forward with confidence into new chapters of our lives.  
The horizon leans forward offering you space to place new steps of change.  Maya Angelou 
Both of us can now
Start where you are, use what you have and do what you can. Arthur Ashe
but remember.....
Growing old is mandatory, but growing up is not.  Walt Disney