Musings on life, love and loss

• Living for thousands and thousands of year with the planet getting more crowed by the day ...
  
• having to watch babies and young people make all the same mistakes  ...
  
• only more of them .. because not only would they feel invinsible - they would be invinsible !!

Or would they ?

As bits and pieces are lopped off in accidents, would parts of them be replaced by tissues belonging to some other person or animal ... would they end up a little like a platypus ?

Sorry, not meaning to offend that beautiful marsupial so well designed for its own habitat !

For me that repetition could be very boring, and I'd resent having to share more and more of my space with others.

Not that I'm not the sharing kind. I am. Too much so for my own good. But at least now and then, I can retreat into my private space at home, and only share with those I choose to invite  across my threshold.

I need a "sabbath". Time out to reflect and ponder the mysteries there are in life.

Even more mysteries as Science matches on. No longer the safe time of Newton, when the world was viewed as neat and predictable as a Swiss watch.

Watching the ABC series recently, where the nature of other planets are scripted upon the data sent back from space probes, and presented in 3D colour as if they were living landscapes ... raise more questions than answers.

Now that the egg timer on my life is fast approaching the 3 score years and 10, I think of all those old sayings my Mum and Dad and forebears shared on barren soil. Like

• You can't take it with you
• A place for everything and everything in its place
• A stitch in time saves nine
• New shoes on the table means a row in the house
• A watched pot never boils
• One can only sleep in one bed at a time, and eat one meal at a time
• Switch the light off, when you leave a room
• If a thing's work doing, its worth doing well
• I grieved because I had no shoes, until I met a man with no feet
• Where there's a will, there's a way

I wonder about how I can left go of all the things I've accumulated over a life time - to be more prepared for death?

Caring for my mother the last 10 years of her life and now almost 5 years on, still trying to let go of those precious things that remind me of her, certainly makes the first point.

Seems experience is a great teacher. I don't want my "stuff" to be a burden to others

I realise most of the things I've collected are "memory aids" of beloveds, other family members, friends and colleagues etc, or objects of beauty.

I've solved that 'memory aid" problem. Thank goodness for the digital age. I can store all these things as images with the new digital camera - all will take up much less space and need no dusting !!

The objects of beauty do give more energy that they take .. so perhaps they can stay for now.

Down-sizing is the issue then.

How do we do that without needing to move house, as I love where we are?

To be prepared if Death comes knocking, sooner that I care to think.

Yet get on with living to the fullest, as if each day may be my last ?

Any tips greatly received.

Cheers

Rona