“The only thing that is constant, is change”
—— Heraclitus of Ephesus
“All you need is love”
—— John Lennon
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The power went out last night and didn’t get back on till noon today, so I went for an early lunch at the local “Down to Earth” health food market to try and write.
Try and write?
Yea, like that’s gonna work. I sat there with my cool little mobile set up. My Logitech bluetooth keyboard, JOBY GorillaPod GripTight PRO tripod and ten-foot braided power cord… all connected in their own way to my new iPhone XS+ 256 gig bundle of coolness.
I sat there.
I sat there and ate my super healthy Friday brunch. A vegan breakfast burrito with some kind of mushy spinach dish, mango muffin (with no added sugar) and a “Real V8” superfood drink. Now THAT should get me inspired eh?
Get met inspired?
Yea, like that’s gonna work. I sat there with nothing coming to mind. I sat only a short while longer until my ass started getting uncomfortable and I realized that what I most needed to do, was move.
I also remembered (and went back to reread) yesterdays post and got some real good, realtime, self-motivation to move. So I drove to the beach, put on this weeks podcast of the “TED Radio Hour“, (the topic was Courage) put on my swim-trunks, put in my earbuds and started walking.
I started walking.
This is the first time I’ve been to the beach since getting back from Minnesota. This is the first time I’ve done any real walking since my hero Dr. Matthew Gettman cut out my cancerous prostate at the Mayo Clinic. I’m walking on the beach, listening to talks about courage and looking for a good spot to to write “I Love You” in the sand so I can text the photo to my sweetheart.
Somehow, at some point during all this, I’d been inspired.
Thoughts of my sweetheart have been inspiring me for quite a while now. I told her so and she has told me of how I inspire her. This inspires me even more. I find a good spot where the wave will get into the photo if I time it just right. I think of how much I want to be with her right now. I think of how all my creative energy now is going into holding her in my heart at all times. These times when we are apart.
I think of how wonderful it will be when that will change and how much has changed since I took that last walk in the park near her house and wrote “I Love You” in the snow. So much has changed yet our love has remained constant.
I remember calling her in the dark. After the power had gone out. My phone getting only a single bar of signal since the Wifi was off and my little corner of paradise needs the Wifi calling from my iMac, for my phone to get a reliable connection. We spoke of how easy it is for us to keep connected compared to how things were when we were young.
The constant texting, calling, Facebook, Instagram, this blog… all the tools we have to stay connected. There was NOTHING like that when we were young. And yet people still kept intimate long-distance connections, and kept them well. Because of love. These things have all changed. But love has not.
Yes change is the constant state of reality in the universe but…
LOVE is THE constant…
The universal…
Blessed…
m(___)m
