"…Living only for the moment, turning our full attention to the pleasures of the moon, the snow, the cherry blossoms and the maple leaves; singing songs, drinking wine, diverting ourselves just floating, floating….refusing to be disheartened, like a gourd floating along with the river current; this is what we call the floating world…” Asai Ryoi, in Ukiyo Monogatari (Tales of the Floating World, 1661)
Monday, July 21, 2008
The Night Before...
I am leaving for San Diego tomorrow. Bag is packed. Everything is in order for my departure. I stopped down at the local bar for a beer, walked home in the cool California night air. I'll toss the last of the incidentals into the bag tomorrow morning. I was just thinking of how many times in my life have been "the night before". I think entire lives are sometimes lived in the night before. In a state of anticipation. In the morning things will start moving. One day closes and another begins. And again. And again. And again.
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