Yes, feeling like a leaf. No, not light as a leaf. ,-) More like a leaf which fell in a stream, and is just drifting along, with the flow. Sometimes bouncing along... Sometimes caught up in some tangle of tree roots... Sometimes whirling about in a tiny whirlpool. Then returning to just drifting along... Until the next thing downstream, catches it for a while... Basically, no self direction.***
Yes, we are all in the stream of life and always moving onward. No fighting/changing that.
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But, I'd really like to build a little boat for my leaf. And add a couple of oars. Then, though always moving on, it would have some say in the pace and general direction of the journey. My leaf could see a whirlpool ahead, and row to the side of it. My leaf could feel its boat being tangled in tree roots, and work on untangling itself as soon as possible. Even with a boat, my leaf wouldn't be guaranteed to go in the route it chooses. But it would have a chance. More of a chance for self-direction, than a leaf, without a boat.
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I need to work on building my little boat, for my leaf. :-) And to take some time, to figure out what kind of a course to plot. To try to plot. Life doesn't give us assurances of our plotted course. But it seems we could give it a try... Instead of just not even bothering to think about it.... or in this little story... Not even bothering to stop to build a boat, and to make a course plan..
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So, if I'm somewhat absent from my usual rounds in Pretty Blog Land, please know. I am busy "building my boat" and trying to "plot a little course." :-)
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And thank you for all the good luck wishes to my husband, about his "boo boo." He has gotten a lot of smiles out of all your words and good wishes... which I've been reading to him. :-)
