Musing

6C/42F, light breeze & still overcast; the orange & yellow overtook the green - it rained, it blew, the equinox came & went; overnight nothing happened of particular note except the same thing that happened March 21; the earth was standing, un-tilted, with the sun over the equator for that day

if we do nothing, the world will continue to turn, the seasons will continue to change for a few more billion years without regard to any efforts we might make to ‘change the world’; if nothing else these 4 ‘season change’ days a year remind us the world is changing, tilting & revolving without us doing a thing, without us having to work or think or try at anything; today that tilting continues, days continue to shorten & nights get longer as has been the case, unchanged, for billions of years

‘You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing in.’ – Heraclitus, 500 BC

Thoreau said ‘Things do not change, we change’ which is true in many ways but not true in that change happens around us all the time whether or not we change ourselves

some of us will change the world

some will watch us do it

some will pay no attention

a precious few will change themselves

when they do, the world will may change a little or a lot or not at all

but when they do, the world will be better

seasons change effortlessly, so can you

some of us will watch you do it

some of us will pay attention

Mark

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