"…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)
Thursday, January 17, 2013
A Tangled Stream of Thoughts
Well, it has been a week. I thought I would pop online tonight and write a bit before I curled back up with "The King of Thorns". Most of the week has been eaten by work. We ran into a series of technical issues on Monday and spent Tuesday and Wednesday fighting our way around them. Combine that with a little of the ongoing family drama and suddenly it is Thursday. T.R. is off to Charleston, which is exciting, since she has dreamed of relocating there for quite a while - actually, as long as I have known her. When someone actually chases their dream, its a pretty amazing thing. I've got a thousand thoughts swirling around in my head, about a thousand different things, but I am not yet in the space where I want to write about them. I could, but given the pace of the week, I think most anything I wrote would end up slipping back into a discussion about work. Work is kind of all consuming right now and probably will be until we get through February and into March. Then it will just be consumed in a different direction. So, consider this entry as an IOU to write about - some of the work stuff that went awry, some the ongoing family drama, my excitement about T.R.'s trip, some zen thoughts I've had lately - and then whatever else pops into my poor little brain. I hope you're having a good day, whoever you are and wherever you are.
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