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A WHOLE SLEW OF PONDERING HAPPENING HERE
Can’t stop those beautiful thoughts from creeping in between the ghastly ones, the ghostly ones.
Lots of reasons to think grimly these days, but eventually something interrupts the flow and spoils my morose prattlings.
For instance, something like a Beautiful Thought.
Yep, the beautiful thoughts just well up and take over now and then when they find an opening. I usually have to insert myself into an in-between moment in order to give those beautiful thoughts a chance to creep in.
Before I know it, though, the Uglies sneak around and start chomping at the Beauties and the war is on, the war between Ugly and Beautiful.
The good news is that, given time–that is, you can’t “give” time, you have to stop, back up a pace, and observe the fact that time goes on with or without your permission–given time, the war seesaws. No matter how much ugliness chomps away, beauty will most likely sneak back in when you least expect it.
It’s those beautiful thoughts, those beautiful minutes, that seem to make things worthwhile again. If you’re lucky, you’ll live long enough to experience a whole slew of these beautiful thoughts, enough of a whole slew to make you almost believe that it’s all worth it–whatever It is and whatever Worth It means
© 2016 A.D. by Jim Reed
http://www.jimreedbooks.com/podcast
(For all concerned grammarians–the word “slew” as used above simply means “multitude.” From old Gaelic. Just so you know that, as an idiot, I am still incomplete.)