I have a running route through the city of Victoria that allows me to run alongside the oldest cemetery in the city. Given this is Victoria, I suspect it is one of the oldest cemeteries in Canada. Anyways, as I plod along .... and yes, I now plod rather than run sometimes ..... I will stop and imagine a life lived back in time from say 1897 - 1988. This individual lived for 91 years before their bodies became food for worms. My apologies for sounding so insensitive, but it is true: we will leave behind these physical bodies, all of us, and we will decay in order to follow the laws of nature from death, decay, gestation, fertilization and rebirth.Can you imagine being witness to two world wars, traversing the Great Depression, witnessing the creative invention called the automobile and even electricity, etc? Myself, born in 1962, I have lived a rather charmed and pampered life! One thing I have been witness and sometimes succumb to is rapidity.Yes, too fast, too much, too competitive and full of striving .... for what? So I can fill up my dash with lots of "to do's" that no one really cares about anyways (and on some level, either do I!).
I am a slow learner however that is my work at this time .... to unlearn conditioned patterns and the only way to do this is to be with them, all of the icky, picky, tricky conditions that no longer serve. My job is to witness them only .... not to change a darn thing, just watch. Ah, so easy! Then why the struggle?
I have a new view of education ..... those of you who know me, I am a bit of an education junkie ..... Alvin Toffler wrote: "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read or write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." Well, this might just about sum up how I am going to be spending the rest of my dash!Wow .... lots to do!!!
signing off for now ...... Stephanie Needham (1962 - _____)
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