Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear? - Jack London
London's words sound like how I feel when I realize it's already October 1 and the year 2012 is speeding by. How can it possibly be only three months until the end of the year?
His references to wheel and gear also remind me of how quickly technology advances and how slow I feel I am to keep up with it.
All of this has me starting to get a little panicky, but then I see this poem by Cindy Cheney:
IME
- Like a petal in the wind
- Flows softly by
- As old lives are taken
- New ones begin
- A continual chain
- Which lasts throughout eternity
- Every life but a minute in time
- But each of equal importance
(photo by http://www.flickr.com/photos/japanate)
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