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Sunday May 22, 2016

What I want is what I want.

Well, today it is.

Tomorrow, what I want might dissolve.

What seemed a good idea yesterday – tomorrow might change my mind, my wants.

I don’t change myself. Though I often change my direction, inflection …

Adaptation to changing circumstances – easily understood in football, or in business, but less so when change happens in rooms of houses between partners or spouses – in that maelstrom of variations they contend with, wishing for change.

Those of us watching from the sidelines, like kids whose noses press against candy store windows, rested, wanting back in that game.


written / published from Calgary, AB

morning walk:  4C/39F, early birds chirping has dissolved into the steady rain (the kind gardeners and farmres love) as charcoal dark turned heavy gray daylight, soggy Gusta and I watched gutters become small downhill rivers …


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