the ashes of July
Ξ Tuesday, 31 Jul 2007 at 23:45 | → Comments Off | ∇ Normal |
note: the MySQL server was down for maintenance last night, so I couldn’t post this until now (01 August ~08.48).
indeed, we are on the cusp of August, with only about an hour to go; there will, of course, be less time when I’m finished writing this. it’s been a good month, the better part of which I spent in Oregon — well, only about a third of it, but still a significant period of time. the liminal period between months is always interesting to me. I end up forgetting what month it is once the new one comes, just as when the new year comes, and my dates are jumbled up for a few days while I adjust. but the new always comes, Time always surges forward, an inexorable, pitiless force. I wouldn’t want to know my death-day, because that would just cause a myriad of problems in the time I had remaining, especially the logistics of squeezing everything into an amount of time that is already decadently delimited by our very mortal nature. so, would that I only know my fate when it’s right behind me, and may I die happy and old — fortunate in life, happy in death, as the ancients would have said. (more…)
