Old Souls

The heads of strong old age are more beautiful beyond all grace of youth. -- Robinson Jeffers, O Magazine, October 2003

It has been said to me on numerous occasions that getting old is inevitable and growing up is optional. (Yes...for once I actually am and I am blogging anyway. Sorry Chris.) I just really need to write some of my thoughts down. I read once that this karmic path of Introspection would require lots of patience as I move about through the more domestic duties of this thing called life.

I just wonder though, do I have to keep vacuuming, bleaching mold, and washing sheets just to make a point that I can do this...and keep the balls in the air? I mean, seriously, the people who make a full life of peeking on their neighbors and eavesdropping on their families, are really missing out on the more precious moments of playing discovery of strange objects with the 9-month-old set. After all, who are we working for if not for them?

It is true, grandparents mellow out.

Aunties are fascinated by children.

And parents...well I can only imagine, can't I?

My Oracle is flooded with some awful rash of ad-pox. Can someone fix that? I might want to break a case and the blinking of the annoying marketing is starting to make me feel epileptic. Oh, and while we are at it, send a California Fruit Basket to Nepal. We are in deep S&%$ with His Holiness.

Oh, and if you are close to Jesus Christ, please tell Him to talk to God about my situation. I seriously need some spiritual support that is altruistic. This paid-for chit-chat is dragging on me emotionally because try as I might, I can't seem to put all the judgement in File 13 where it belongs.

Erx, thank you for the head's-up. It is nice to have someone I trust working the other-side of the fence with only a mild intellectual interest in me. I find good friends are hard to find and great Techs are even rarer.

Taiji, relax, would you? The worst that could happen is you get dumped for being my friend, and the private sector will pay you three-times scale with my recommendation...if money matters that much.

Ninja, I forgive you and all will be forgiven. Write about your ability to make a mistake, learn from it, and earn the trust you thought you lost forever. There are a bunch of people in your target demographic that need to know about this kind of forgiveness.

A and A...thank you for being renewed. I have missed you both.

Paiji is on hiatus permanently.

Only one here now is...

~AC