oh! eight:
Which is me
(an '08),
approaching
the end
of my time
at Queen's.
It's gonna be great.
The beginning of things - when is it exactly?
Eleasa wants to know.
Because why do people always say the day starts now? Really it starts in the middle of the night at a fraction of a second past midnight. But it's not supposed to have begun until the dawn, really the dark is still last night and it isn't morning till the light, though actually it was morning as soon as it was even a fraction of a second past twelve i.e. that experiment where you divide something down and down like the distance between the ground and a ball that's been bounced on it so that it can be proved that the ball never actually touches the ground.
So does this mean that the beginning is something to do with being able to see? That the day begins as soon as you wake up and open your eyes? Is the beginning different for everyone? Or do beginnings just keep stretching on forwards and forwards all day? Or maybe it is back and back they stretch. Because every time you open your eyes there was a time before that when you closed them then a different time before that when you opened them, all the way back, through all the sleeping and the waking and the ordinary things like blinking, to the first time you ever open your eyes, which is probably round about the moment you are born.
--Ali Smith (except for the italicized)
Saturday was the first time I've consciously made resolutions. As in, was asked to, (sort of) thought back & thought ahead, wrote things down, categorizing them into 3 columns (spiritual, physical, relational), shared them with other people and had them prayed over. And resolved to keep them. Or at least, remember them.
The more I think about it, the more vulnerable it seems, the scarier the precipice and precarious balance between achievement and failure of such a resolve. But that's just one aspect to thinking about the future - in Sunday's sermon, we were asked to think of 3 big events that happened to affect us personally in the past year. The realization was that the majority of these big events are unplanned. Yes, not being in control is indeed scary - but that is the human condition. We aren't in control of our circumstances. We are limited people, we are vulnerable. But we hold on to what is constant, steady, unchanging & true. So beyond the vulnerability, there is anticipation & excitement & expectation of those things that will take us by surprise - the good & the bad, the amazing & the heart wrenches, the trials & temptations & suffering, the making of character & shaping of spirituality.
It's gonna be an amazing term & year.
(an '08),
approaching
the end
of my time
at Queen's.
It's gonna be great.
The beginning of things - when is it exactly?
Eleasa wants to know.
Because why do people always say the day starts now? Really it starts in the middle of the night at a fraction of a second past midnight. But it's not supposed to have begun until the dawn, really the dark is still last night and it isn't morning till the light, though actually it was morning as soon as it was even a fraction of a second past twelve i.e. that experiment where you divide something down and down like the distance between the ground and a ball that's been bounced on it so that it can be proved that the ball never actually touches the ground.
So does this mean that the beginning is something to do with being able to see? That the day begins as soon as you wake up and open your eyes? Is the beginning different for everyone? Or do beginnings just keep stretching on forwards and forwards all day? Or maybe it is back and back they stretch. Because every time you open your eyes there was a time before that when you closed them then a different time before that when you opened them, all the way back, through all the sleeping and the waking and the ordinary things like blinking, to the first time you ever open your eyes, which is probably round about the moment you are born.
--Ali Smith (except for the italicized)
Saturday was the first time I've consciously made resolutions. As in, was asked to, (sort of) thought back & thought ahead, wrote things down, categorizing them into 3 columns (spiritual, physical, relational), shared them with other people and had them prayed over. And resolved to keep them. Or at least, remember them.
The more I think about it, the more vulnerable it seems, the scarier the precipice and precarious balance between achievement and failure of such a resolve. But that's just one aspect to thinking about the future - in Sunday's sermon, we were asked to think of 3 big events that happened to affect us personally in the past year. The realization was that the majority of these big events are unplanned. Yes, not being in control is indeed scary - but that is the human condition. We aren't in control of our circumstances. We are limited people, we are vulnerable. But we hold on to what is constant, steady, unchanging & true. So beyond the vulnerability, there is anticipation & excitement & expectation of those things that will take us by surprise - the good & the bad, the amazing & the heart wrenches, the trials & temptations & suffering, the making of character & shaping of spirituality.
It's gonna be an amazing term & year.