Lately I haven't been around here much because my life has been hectic. A rather tumultuous August ended on an upswing, followed by a chaotic first week of September, but now that September is settling in, today I find my usual unquiet mind and body in an eerie state of contentment.
Many things in my life are positive right now. I should be obtaining both a Bachelor's Degree and a Masters Degree within the next two years. I have several projects; work is going well. School is going so smoothly (so far) it's ridiculous. Though the state of the world is beyond absolute insanity, and it leaves an ulcer of despair in my heart from compassion, things in my own world, as busy as they are ... for once are falling in place.
My long creative dry spell has been saturated by tears. I am taking more pictures. I am rediscovering some of my favorite old music. I am laughing. I am smiling. I am dancing with children.
I am writing again.
Perhaps the curse of Tantalus has been lifted from my pilgrimage.
"... Your cleverest poets ... deny food and drink to Tantalus, merely because he was a good man and inclined to share with his friends the immortality bestowed on him by the gods. And some of them hang stones over him, and rain insults of a terrible kind upon this divine and good man; and I would much rather that they had represented him as swimming in a lake of nectar, for he regaled men with that drink humanely and ungrudgingly ... But we must not suppose that he was really the victim of the gods' dislike ..." [Flavius Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 3.25]
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good to hear, boss.
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