The Holidays are...starting to gnaw at me today. Well, not so much the "Holidaze" themselves....but the Old Ghosts that I associate with them.
Which is why I'm writing at the moment. Clear the old head a little.
& then, I started to think about something....
See, recently...I've been re-reading one of my very favorite fantasy series: The Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb.
I'd almost forgotten them for a time, & recently they returned to my attention in such a manner that caused me to begin reading them, & experiencing them...all over again.
The books are ...leading me somewhere....
Hence--"Following the Fool"...
There's this quote that I just read...the point of view of a Wolf, who does not understand the ways of Man, yet is strongly bonded to one.
"It was just a thing from a yesterday?..." Nighteyes wondered hesitantly. "A thing no longer here? It is not a thorn in your paw? Or a pain in your belly?..."
I've been rolling these words around in my head since I re-encountered them last night. This fresh perspective....
Suddenly, alot of things seemed to snap into perspective for me.
Most of the things that ail us...are just that--things of yesterday. They don't matter anymore. We don't need them.
Old possessions. Old photographs. Old Words. Old Ghosts...
Put them away...forget about them...& move forward. This is what I tell myself. It 's easier said than done...but it's what I wish to do.
More than anything in this life...
All those "things of yesterday"...I just don't want them anymore.
I want nothing more than to live today--right now--& be Free.
Whenever I say such things, a friend of mine tells me I sound like a Chan Buddhist. Perhaps this is the case?...
Or maybe I simply sound like a Wolf.
Maybe I can just Be....
Maybe.
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