I've been quiet for a while now. Since the last time I posted, I took a trip to the U.S. Virgin Islands. It was unusual circumstances. The accommodations were a gift from my good friends Joe and Paul to myself and 5 of their other friends. I met some wonderful women and had a way much needed albeit brief escape. We stayed on St. John. It is a beautiful island and largely undeveloped. I highly recommend it to anyone seeking a tropical retreat.
It seems a little insane to me that we are already finishing up the first quarter of the year. In a heartbeat it will be summer and a nanosecond later, I'll be getting the kids ready for school. And so life goes, eh? It's oddly comforting right this moment to think that time seems to pass so quickly and without incident. Surely by the Fall, the economy will be turning around. Certainly the emotional aftermath of recent challenges will have faded. Much more will have been processed. My toddler will be more negotiable — well, at least more verbal. I will be living in a larger, lighter and less expensive apartment. Maybe not by May, but definitely by September. Right?
I used to want time to creep by so I could savor every moment, stay young forever suck every bit of honey out of life. Is it me? Am I taking on a national - or even global - malaise? My own personal melancholy is compounded by stories of so many people out of work. So many people drained of their life savings. So many people in foreclosure on their homes. I just don't see many smiling faces these days. As the great Robert Plant once said, "Does anybody remember laughter?"
One of my favorite tweeters @IntegralHack recently said, "Compassion is the only solution. Not the fuzzy, teary-eyed emotional response, but the limpid recognition of interconnection."
I'll just go with that for now while I ride out the whatever-it-is-we-are-all-experiencing-right-now and wait for it to pass.
What? No hyperlink?
Posted by: Matt | March 25, 2009 at 11:22 PM