The Blackburn Digest

There are icicles hanging from the eaves, ice coated branches of the photinia “hedge” (approx. 16′-18′ high) and tea-rose bending to the ground and two ice-clad cars in front of my house!  Borrowing a phrase from my daughter’s blog, the weather is crap-tacular!

Have we moved to Washington State or Ohio since my last post?  Nope - unfortunately, this report is coming to you from good ol’ San Antonio, Texas- home of the nation’s largest number of drivers who cannot even grasp the simple ,oft-proven concept that streets become slippery-when-wet!! What do you get when you mix that sort of driver with the freezing rain, frozen-over side roads and over-passes and still-falling ice pellets we are *enjoying* in Austin, San Antonio and a broad band of destinations in between? A nightmare scenario for anyone who cannot choose to stay off the roads (possibly thru Thursday, according to current reports), and Stress Plus for mothers of those on-the-move!

Today is my birthday. To be excruciatingly exact, my 59th birthday.

What have I learned?  Oh, I have learned much over the years, but this seems most applicable to the day; Time doesn’t march!  If you are bored with your life; if nothing catches your attention, engages your imagination or fires your dreams, I suppose time plods or drags. If you are aware of how many good books there are to still be read, if there are more creations you want to complete and designs left in your notebook, if you still want to learn a new language or try your hand at writing stories, if you continue to feel you can make a contribution somehow, time flys! 

Personally, it has come as a bit of a shock that while I may be getting ‘older and slower’, time is unyielding and unwilling to slow down to accommodate my personal change-of-pace! >G<   Since I still have a great many activities left on my personal Things To Do list, (including watching my first grand-daughter discover this marvelous world),  I expect I shall simply have to continue to operate on my own internal clock:-)  That’s alright - it has always seemed to be more accurate  anyway!