Tuesday Morning Wake-Up Call

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Remember when you would have been over-the-moon thrilled to have just a fraction of your life as it is now?

Look around you: it is enough.

KEEP MOVING

— Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change (Atria/One Signal Publishers, October 6, 2020)

Photo: Daybreak. December 15, 2020. 6:39 to 7:09 am. 29° F. Feels like 23° F. Cove Island Park, Stamford CT

26 thoughts on “Tuesday Morning Wake-Up Call”

  3. For some reason, the sight of your clouds married with that quote, have brought tears to my eyes.
    It’s as though I want to rail against the notion, that if I look around me, I will see it is enough.
    I want to cry out in strident opposition, No. It’s Not Enough.
    And then I smile and remember, whether I think it is enough or not, what is around me right now is all there is. It is what is.
    I look around me. The house sleeps in the quiet of the darkness before dawn. A candle glows on my desk, its light flickering on the photo taken at my mother’s 95th birthday two years ago. I am with my 2 sisters, my 2 daughters, then 6-month-old grandson and my mother.
    4 generations that now live on in 3.
    It wasn’t a Covid loss. My mother’s passing in February was just time having had its fill of her life.
    And perhaps that is where the tears come from. Not only will my mother not be amongst us this Christmas, we will all be in our separate houses. Alone.
    And my heart aches in the reality of what is.
    I want to say, it’s not enough.
    And must breathe into the reality — It is what it is.

    Your photos these days are digging deep my friend. Thank you. (I think) 🙂

    2. Louise, YOUR comment made me tear up – and I’m glad that those clouds ‘did’ it for you. It’s ‘funny’ (for not finding another better word) how we get touched by pictures, words, gestures – everyone in their way and only the hardened ones don’t feel anything. Not because they don’t want to feel, but because they have unlearned to. THEY are to be pitied.
      Thank you for your words. They are the perfect match to what Dave showed and said.

  4. Realizing this more and more with each passing day. At the end of the day, ya simply don’t need all that much to be happy. Thanks for the ‘heart hug,’ pal. Keep walkin’–I’m *really* looking forward to those snow pix! 🙂

  6. oh, dear, dear Maggie Smith – and thank you Dave, for sharing her thoughts with us.
    If C19 has changed me in anything it is just this: I’m even more grateful and amazed, day after day, for all I (still) have.

    But then, I’m also incredibly privileged with the bounty of living in a peaceful country in modest (but oh so much more than most) comfort, food and clothes etc.

    Now how about a dog?
    And that all my dear ones in great sufferance may get better? Or those who wait to die, may?

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