A New Week

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 It’s Monday and a new week begins with Easter now over.  Mother’s Day isn’t a holiday, but it is the next event on the Spring calendar.  Then there will be graduations and Father’s Day.  And so the calendar marches forward.  Some physicist said that remnants of history are always around us and he thinks time travel will be possible but without the grandfather paradox.  He says time travelers will just be observers and not participants is shaping history.  

I’m fascinated by time travel.  There are those who have vivid memories of previous lives.  What if reincarnation is a kind of time travel.  The possibilities are endless if we think of life as a loop where we go from one life to the next.  I’m not really a believer in reincarnation, but that I doubt more than not believe.  I allow for the possibility.  

But for most of us time goes forward and the past is history.  What is done is done and our past can shape our future, but I believe in choices.  Anyone at any given time can end a life including one’s own.  We choose to live and let live or we choose to end a life.  The choice is constantly there.  If we can’t alter the past we can shape our future by learning from the past.  

But this is where wisdom in old age is born.  We learn as we grow older and wiser.  Wisdom teaches us mistakes we made when we were younger.  Mistakes teach us to grow.  Everyone learns by trial and error.  So, St. Francis was right when he said to accept what we cannot change and change what we can.  One psychiatrist said that when a patient says what is is has made a breakthrough about life.  That statement is about acceptance.

We can’t change what is, but we can change how we see what is.  What is could be fear and dread, or it is a challenge for us not to change what is but see it differently.  So, as time marches on I am of an age I can relax with a pipe and let tomorrow take care of itself.  My pipe this morning is my Norning Number 3 pipe and my tobacco is. old Professor.  My coffee this morning is Mt. Comfort from Guatemala.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave

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