moving forward...

“Go back?" he thought. "No good at all! 

Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!" 

So up he got, and trotted along with his little sword held in front of him and one hand feeling the wall, and his heart all of a patter and a pitter.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

Life 

it moves

all the time

we sometimes live with the illusion

that it stops

let's us sit still

bask

whine 

hide

but

in all reality 

it doesn't.

Each moment

we stand

for just a fragment of a smidgen of a second

between there and there

in 

the moment

we just don't always know it

or realize it 

or admit it.

Just as the water under this old covered bridge

moves under the relic of days past,

so our life

moves...

sometimes creeps when the dryness settles over our shell of hardness

sometimes

it is like being stuck in the middle of an inner tube

going as swiftly and quickly as

the ripples move forward.

sure...

there is a risk..

a risk that

we'll get dumped out,

fall off,

or in sometimes my case fall off and have to lay face down because my butt is too big to jump back on...

but

in all of it

Life

rumbles along,

moves,

oozes,

drizzles

seems to stall but then 

rushes ahead....

Always

every minute

we move forward

in some way or another...

and

if we are aware enough to know it

we capture breathless sights along the way

if we are brave enough to open our eyes

we catch glimpses of wonder and love 

and

if we so allow our hearts to swell with excitement

we 

experience the wave of being alive...

fully alive

with wind in our hair and water all around...

life moves forward...

all the time..

past behind 

future before

and

here...

right here...

we live.

May each of us 

relish our 

"here" moment

and 

breath deeply and feel the pitter patter of your heart,

love

laugh 

burst forth with the wonder of being alive for another brief moment.

Today 

life moves forward.

elections

come and go

people vote one way or the other

presidents leave and stay. 

The election will end..

in an outcome

and

we people

who 

get all caught up in it....

move on forward.

I'm a skeptic

I really don't believe my vote really counts

don't think it really matters..

but

I will vote..

because I can

and

so should you...many others around the world

are still silenced by

their gender, or social class and religion --

we still have the right--the right to 

flick the switch

and

even if 

it might be an illusion that we have a voice...

I'm still gonna do it.

so 

move on forward

go to the poll and flick a switch and

then

enjoy the ride for the rest of the day...

the past

stays behind

the future is forward....

enjoy here just for today..

Have a great Tuesday...

blessings...

the radical rambler