It has been some time since I last posted on my blog. This is pretty much indicative of my summer. Due to wanderings and restlessness, a consistent schedule has not been followed. This is certainly fine with me. What are summers for? And any way, other than relying on schedules to help me get from point A to point B, especially when relating to work, I have little patience or use for schedules.
My summer has been great on many levels. Our trip to Texas to see our son and daughter-in-law, Josh and Kate, and to Chicago to see our son Kyle, and coming up next weekend everyone will be home, including our son and daughter-in-law, Andy and Amanda, has made my summer of wandering and restlessness worthwhile!
I have been known to pretty much wander in thought, reflection, and attention. It is not uncommon for me to become totally lost with any train of thought while in conversation with others. Not because I am being rude. I simply have a restless mind which wanders from one idea to another. Often a question just comes to mind which I cannot shake. It is there and I need to deal with this question. I also have a tendency to begin saying something and in the middle of whatever I am saying, I will stop as if not even having an idea that I was talking, and my mind is wandering to an entirely different thought. Just ask those closest to me, I often forget what I was originally talking about.
I do not see any of this being a huge detriment, or a neurological disorder. No, my mind functions best, operates most efficiently under the principle of “Not All Who Wander Are Lost”!
Yet as this wandering of mind is a somewhat common occurrence, there also has been a profound sense of restlessness this summer. For me this is a deep, embedded restlessness. The kind only caused by standing at the threshold of doing “this” or “that”, knowing one of those two, regardless of what is chosen will impact me and my life in a major way.
But what is there to worry? As my son Joshua is well known for saying as well as proving, “It will all work out!” Knowing this makes all the wandering and restlessness worth it. Keep enjoying the journey! That is what living is all about.
I recently came across this quote from Bertolt Brecht’s The First Psalm, translated by Robert Bly.
“We are travelling with tremendous speed toward a star in the Milky Way. A great repose is visible on the face of the earth. My heart’s a little fast. Other than that everything’s fine.”
WOW! This makes all the wanderings and restlessness well worth it! To living and loving life! CHEERS!
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