Despite all good intentions to write something daily about my sixtieth year, leading up to Birthday #60, the randomness of life happened. I had a supremely busy day on Day 6 - a good day but a busy day filled with happy activities. Launched the day with a step aerobics class AND yoga and spent the afternoon making soup while the rain poured outside and the wind raged all around us.
The photo above was a visual highlight of the day - and, as it turns out, a bit of foreshadowing of the days to come. It was, of course, simply a board covered with the paint splatters left by workers who had been doing some repainting of our fitness center.
The second photo - below - shows a long-shot of the corner where I found the board. Up close, and isolated, the randomness is beautiful and vivid; filled with movement of color and texture.
Maybe that's how I need to view the randomness of events this that come between Intention and Reality every day. What ultimately comprises a day's events, that mess and conglomeration of random & purposeful, is often beautiful in retrospect. Or at least interesting. If not, the next morning brings a new start.
The randomness which came between intention and reality during my past 48 hours? A computer back up glitch which led to endless hours of trying to repair an external hard drive, failing, and then calling tech support, visiting a local Mac repair shop...and on and on. I just took a deep breath, did what I could when I could, and set it aside til today when I could finish the job.
My soup was wonderful - Day 6's soup - served last night, Day 7, to husband & guests while we watched the Academy Awards and answered movie trivia questions during commercial breaks. Apple crisp for dessert, lots of talk and laughter, a great evening. Today life continued, filled with randomness AND purpose. And lots of beauty.
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