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Fall Forward

Summer is now over.

We can summarize this summer year as the season of watery canines.
Now can somebody get me a ticket to the real world?

Final Friday

Time flies, just like dogs do occasionally as we can see here.

You must have had a day like this in your life. It is when nothing much has changed and suddenly you have a day where lots of invididual events happen at the same time.

It was my last day at work since resigning, and as I was cleaning out my desk the phone rang. It was my Mother who was calling to let me know that they were moving out of the house our family had lived in for over 30 years. It will be torn down next week and they will be building a new house on the same lot over the next six months or so.

Time now for changes that have been coming for a long time.

Playing on a Rock

Mordant feelings persist on this last summer holiday long weekend. The grief and destruction from the hurricane in the Gulf has ruined so many lives, its hard to think of much else.

Summer's end is bringing lots of changes to me it seems. They are on the horizon, but not quite here yet.

These kids playing in our local park are starting a new school year, but their park will soon be consumed to some degree by a new townhouse community development. We strolled around the perimeters of the construction zone to see for ourselves what towering trees will be lost, and it was a pretty grim realization.

Time marches on, and it can just as easily bring tidal surges and the loss of a park as it can bring sunshine and new opportunities.

Crankpot

Maybe it is the long summer's dissapating energy working on me...

Or maybe the lingering cough from the stubborn cold that I got on vacation a couple of weeks ago...

Could it be the changes at my job?

In any case I am not pleased with myself or the world now. The tide has gone out and left me standing on the deserted beach that used to be full of life.