Someone on Facebook suggested that I blog this. I replied that I sometimes WAX Eloquent. So here it is. I was thinking about the passing of life and how it was reflected in the Facebook posts of my friends, who range in age from 13 to 78 years of age and many in between.
Wordsworth poem I learned in school. Was thinking about how your perspective changes as you get older.
Found out WW wrote this when either he or his sister was getting married and he was wondering what the changes would bring to him.
Same poem that starts with My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky, so was it when my life began, So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, or let me die, the child is father of the man Child is father of the Man; I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. 1802.... See More
I used to love WW's references to nature. Not sure what he means by natural piety. Was he a Christian, or a naturalist? Whatever, there is a continuity to life, and it goes by faster than we think it will.
Reading the various posts on my FB page elicited this. I have posts by kids and college students who are interested in crazy jokes, and high school activities. Not too many folk posting about the superbowl tomorrow, wonder why?
Then in the middle of it all a post by a friend whose ninety year old mother just died. And a prayer request by a friend my age for his adult kids. And posts by folk who are older than I am. They are not so pensive. They post jokes, and political statements.
Today I have a birthday party for some folks who have been getting together for years to celebrate each others birthdays. They started when 50 seemed old. Now most if not all have passed that marker.
Facebook is certainly an interesting microcosm of life.
Well, as I put the finishing touches on my rearranged office, and watch the Saturday Today show, and drink my morning coffee with Amaretto coffee mate in it, I think of my day... No one will probably read this far, so I will not worry. I should go down and pick up the laundry I put in at 6:30, and I should start getting ready for the party tonight. Plus I have bills that must be paid.
Seeing snow in Washington DC or Virginia or somewhere on the screen now. So glad it is not here. We had a dusting but I still see green on the lawns out my office windows.
We had these types of snows in other years. I remember one that came right after Christmas vacation, and I got to call my co-workers to tell them the vacation had been extended. But not this year. For the first few years after retirement, I would listen to the school closings and still get a feeling of excitement. Not so much anymore. But I found that even doctors will allow you to miss an appointment if the weather is bad.
Well, enough rambling. Time to go shower, and finish the laundry and take my mega lot of pills and eat and do my glucose tests and make the bed and and and and. Then perhaps to rest a little. What a beautiful day we have been given today. If you are healthy, and alert, the day is something to seize and enjoy and for which to be thankful.
SMILES!
Wordsworth poem I learned in school. Was thinking about how your perspective changes as you get older.
Found out WW wrote this when either he or his sister was getting married and he was wondering what the changes would bring to him.
Same poem that starts with My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky, so was it when my life began, So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, or let me die, the child is father of the man Child is father of the Man; I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. 1802.... See More
I used to love WW's references to nature. Not sure what he means by natural piety. Was he a Christian, or a naturalist? Whatever, there is a continuity to life, and it goes by faster than we think it will.
Reading the various posts on my FB page elicited this. I have posts by kids and college students who are interested in crazy jokes, and high school activities. Not too many folk posting about the superbowl tomorrow, wonder why?
Then in the middle of it all a post by a friend whose ninety year old mother just died. And a prayer request by a friend my age for his adult kids. And posts by folk who are older than I am. They are not so pensive. They post jokes, and political statements.
Today I have a birthday party for some folks who have been getting together for years to celebrate each others birthdays. They started when 50 seemed old. Now most if not all have passed that marker.
Facebook is certainly an interesting microcosm of life.
Well, as I put the finishing touches on my rearranged office, and watch the Saturday Today show, and drink my morning coffee with Amaretto coffee mate in it, I think of my day... No one will probably read this far, so I will not worry. I should go down and pick up the laundry I put in at 6:30, and I should start getting ready for the party tonight. Plus I have bills that must be paid.
Seeing snow in Washington DC or Virginia or somewhere on the screen now. So glad it is not here. We had a dusting but I still see green on the lawns out my office windows.
We had these types of snows in other years. I remember one that came right after Christmas vacation, and I got to call my co-workers to tell them the vacation had been extended. But not this year. For the first few years after retirement, I would listen to the school closings and still get a feeling of excitement. Not so much anymore. But I found that even doctors will allow you to miss an appointment if the weather is bad.
Well, enough rambling. Time to go shower, and finish the laundry and take my mega lot of pills and eat and do my glucose tests and make the bed and and and and. Then perhaps to rest a little. What a beautiful day we have been given today. If you are healthy, and alert, the day is something to seize and enjoy and for which to be thankful.
SMILES!
