Sunday, August 12, 2018

#BlogElul Day 1. Decide

     It’s easy to create sandcastles in your mind and believe that your construction is stable and impervious to destruction. Of course it is because nothing is real— just figments of imagination. Nothing moves, nothing changes. Nothing is transformed.
     To move beyond fantasy into a world that tilts, a world with obstacles, a world that spins showing new faces as it rotates requires stepping beyond the interior world. 
     In my mind I’ve written and rewritten a story without ever penning a word. Perhaps I need to step out, take up the proverbial pen and begin with once upon a time...Perhaps it isn’t really necessary to write that story.
     How often have I intended to say or do something, but the intention remained just that— unformed into something I acted upon. It’s the difference between passivity and action. And we all, at different times, hover in that space between the two poles. 
     If, that marvelous two letter word, allows for conjecture. To act even when aware of the implications of if requires putting one foot in front of another and proceeding. Some actions are simple—while others arduous and costly.
    Soon it will be my daughter’s birthday and I will buy a card. I’ll pass over a number of cards looking for one that is neutral— not sentimental nor aloof. I’ll write a check and enclose it with the card. I’ll post the card and in a week or so a text will arrive saying thank you. 

    This year I’ll send her a New Year’s card wishing her   L’Shana Tovah Umetukah. “ A good and sweet year.”




Prompt: Decide
#BlogElul

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