Creepy Dreams

When I'm sick I always have the weirdest dreams. Yesterday I dreamt (is that still a word?) that I was very old. Someone was interviewing me - might have been my hundredth birthday. Anyway, I was blind from diabetes and when they asked about my mother I started crying because I could no longer picture her face and though I held her photograph, could not see it.

God Strikes Again

I was just reading a blog in which my sister referred to a limousine ride we shared in 1989. We also apparently share the memory, though my point of view was from the back seat and hers from the front. Seems simultaneously like last month and a thousand years ago. She also wrote about time. Oh, just go read it. No point in my trying to rephrase what she already put so well. But come back for the God part...

So while I'm reading this, I'm holding one of Eckhart Tolle's books. Not because I'm reading it, but because I need something to set my laptop on since it's becoming uncomfortably hot on my lap and The Power of Now happens to be within my grasp (literally). :-) Austin is playing a song on his guitar that I think is by James Taylor, so I try Google to figure out what it is. The following lyrics pop up and I have one of those little moments of superconsciousness - like a flashbulb going off in my head, illuminating everything for an instant, but leaving me with only the afterimage...

The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time
Any fool can do it
There aint nothing to it
Nobody knows how we got to
The top of the hill
But since we're on our way down
We might as well enjoy the ride

The secret of love is in opening up your heart
Its okay to feel afraid
But dont let that stand in your way
cause anyone knows that love is the only road
And since we're only here for a while
Might as well show some style
Give us a smile

Isnt it a lovely ride
Sliding down
Gliding down
Try not to try too hard
Its just a lovely ride

Now the thing about time is that time
Isnt really real
Its just your point of view
How does it feel for you
Einstein said he could never understand it all
Planets spinning through space
The smile upon your face
Welcome to the human race

Some kind of lovely ride
Ill be sliding down
Ill be gliding down
Try not to try too hard
Its just a lovely ride

Isnt it a lovely ride
Sliding down
Gliding down
Try not to try too hard
Its just a lovely ride

Now the secret of life is enjoying the passage of time

-James Taylor

What's In A Name?

Old name: Donald Stephen Metz
New Name: Stephen Metz-Lago
Donald is dead. Long live Stephen.