I may have hit my seasonal nadir. Hmmmm Feb. 23, 2021, a day after thinking day. Twenty years and a day, after I was diagnosed with breast cancer. How does one measure time? Certainly the highs and lows of the human experience come to mind. Do you..<\/p>\n
1. Measure time, as a distance from birth – obviously your own, your siblings? your children? your parents, a favourite author, celebrity, friend?<\/p>\n
2. Measure time, as relative to significant events – world wars, moon landings, pandemics, inventions and interventions.<\/p>\n
3. Measure time, as data projections – the average life span for a woman is 82 years. My mother died at 83. My father died at 104 – defying all odds, but that in itself defined him.<\/p>\n
4. Measure time as the objectives you have set for yourself and accomplished, or nor, as the case may be. I have set many goals for myself – travel, family, vocation, self-employment, creative pursuits. I’m probably 85% realized in this measure. Does one every reach 100%? It may be a reason to keep moving forward.<\/p>\n
5. Measure time as your contribution to the human condition. How many lives have you saved, enriched, fostered?<\/p>\n
6. Measure time as your contribution to nature. How many endangered species have you preserved; how much have you reduced, recycled, reused, repurposed……this in itself is a life’s work.<\/p>\n
7. Measure time as the constant change of the seasons, the neighbourhood, the government….this is something that is on-going – change is the only constant. How do we become a meaningful part of the “constant?”<\/p>\n
8. Measure time as diary or log entries. Do you record what is meaningful or not in the day-to day rhythms of life?<\/p>\n
9. Measure your life in daily challenges. I try to do as many as I can…or remember to do. However, over the past week or so, I have undertaken the painting of my daughter’s room. She has flown the coop and I have been left with the “poop” – so to speak. To save some money and to rise to a challenge, I have patched, sanded, primed and am about to paint ceilings, walls and woodwork of an average sized bedroom. This is a therapy I would never have imagined I needed. Say naught that the challenge not availeth!!<\/p>\n
In the grey of a February day, there is something about the white of a primer that clears the mind, covers the scars and leads the way to a new and peaceful place to be.<\/p>\n
Oh and did I mention, I have new windows…..there is something about windows that lets in, not only the light, but the life on even the greyest of February days!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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