Friday, September 23, 2005

It was almost dry...


...and then...

While it may not normally happen on this grand of a scale, this sort of thing seems to happen all around us. People ALMOST have babies. People ALMOST have love. People ALMOST have financial security. You just never know when the next strong storm is going to blow through your life and wipe the slate clean, forcing you to start over, or at least retreat a bit and walk over some part of the path a second time. Where are we all headed? Two steps forward and one step back. Until we die. How ridiculously silly it all seems.

2 comments:

Kathy McC said...

It's unbelieveable, and very very sad. It's like you can almost taste the success, and then BAM! It's gone. Just like that.

msfitzita said...

I really does seem silly, and yet somehow, somehow we carry on just the same. I'm not sure if it's stupidity, stubborness or just cock-eyed optimism, but the day dawns, I greet it and I hope.

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