Me & My Shadow

A warm night on a bench at the Commons with a true companion discussing the small joys, like the way your shadow will dance for you even when you're not dancing. As though there is always a part of yourself that reaches for joy.

Timeline

I got to thinking about timelines. How long does it take for this for that. I googled British Royalty and got a somewhat answer. From the time of the Middle Ages to the time the Puritans took off from mother Angleterre and her newly moderne (hedonistic) ideas including a yuck on for Catholicism and a love on for Royal Mistresses to create New England, less people reigned than exist in my circle of friends. It only took (I forget the actual number now) about 20 - 25 people reigning a lifetime to span this period. Consider all of the wars and stillborn babies and plaques and implentation of things like sewer systems and parliaments and count the lifetimes and it just doesn't seem that long. That we are connected to our ancestors just isn't that crazy because generations last a long long time while history seems forever ago, it really wasn't.
What was forever ago was the here & now that just left. The changing of the guard of the present within one's own little scope of the universe has so much more a drastic effect. Time is so arbitrary. Everthing is so connected.

tattoo me

Every hot day I think about getting my tattoos overhauled, not a good idea in the summer sunshine for white tattoos, every winter I'm too broke. Somewhere there is a happy medium. I guess it's called Autumn. I'm also going to extend them down my arms. The wings are going to extend to full cranes and everytime I look at my forearms I will see the ability to stretch and fly before me.
tattoos are a way for short people to have height.

So the mass exodus of Haligonians to other parts is on. Soon I won't know anyone when I walk down the street and will have to make a whole new set of friends I never see or talk with or do anything with. Actually, considering all this, everyone moving away does not affect me at all, I will stil see everyone as much as usual and maybe even talk to them more with that urgency keeping in touch brings....
hmmm.
Sayonora everyone & talk often.