It's so beautiful outside...

So, here I am sitting in my bedroom, typing away, glancing out the window from time to time, which draws my attention to the fact that, its such a beautiful day for a picnic or just a day outdoors . It dawns on me then, such luck we have, to sometimes get these beautiful days, mostly during the week that is.

Every time I meet some neighbor I get this, " Such  a beautiful day right?" which of course immediately gives rise to this, very sneaky guilty feeling in me, for nothing other than that feeling of, I have been doing absolutely nothing at all,nothing substantial, to take advantage of the beauty all around me. Immediately, I try to think of ways and means to do fun stuff, only to realize we already have too many commitments of some sports or games, or classes or anything else but....

Last weekend, I did make myself a bit useful. I decided to tackle my "potted garden" ... my name for all my potted plants put together in the little outdoor space, the patio, that comes with our living space. It is apt to be named so I guess.. Now I know you are wondering why just a 'potted garden', right? We never stay long in a single place..we are always in a constant state of flux/move.... all these just brings to mind, the poet Thom Gunn's words. ....

"One moves as well, always toward, toward."....."At worse, one is in motion; and at best, Reaching no absolute,in which to rest,  One is always nearer by not keeping still."

That my friends , is us ...very much us you know, in a nutshell.

So you see, any long-term plans are out, anything that is long-term in fact. This, for the very same people to whom permanency and security is of the priority even in simple matters of life.

Am not so naive you know, to think this is just our lot. There is no permanency anywhere, in anything, in fact, as is well known, you just got to look around you to see that."One joins the movement in a valueless world" ..How can there be any, when, the world itself is in a constant state of flux ? I got to say I do love that particular piece of Gunn's . In fact, I remember elaborating on it in a post-graduate  class a few years' back . It was so easy for me then, to get the idea across, as we were talking about something I had freshly experienced then. It always helps, your own experience with things, to  get the idea across in more clarity, I guess..Oh! how I miss my teaching days!