Life is one ongoing evolving structure
From a January 9, 1991 presume written July 9, 1990
The structures set up in life’s first half serve me well in Life’s second half:
Jogging, dancing, friends, meditation, journal writing review, trial work, experiencing feeling, love of good coffee and wine, hospice work, home ownership, art collage painting, reading, deep conversation, movies , laughter at the ridiculous
End of this part of the presume
Note:
A presume is a journal entry written as if it were 6 months in the future from the date it is actually written. In the entry you imagine events that will happen in that time span. It's a way to project out current trajectories. It’s amazing how much of it comes close to what really happens.
I was 35 when I wrote the above presume.
Now, at age 68, I’d have to say that the life structure set up at 35 is not the structure of my life today.
I no longer jog or dance. Instead, I lift weights in the gym, treadmill and open water swim in the ocean. Journal writing review has evolved into curating journal entries to be include in a journal based book and including entries in a blog. I still love coffee, but don’t drink alcohol. I left hospice work in 1995, but was present for my partner Jim’s death as well as the death of my father and recently for the death of my sister. I have not done a collage painting for decades., although, I love the paintings I did 30 years ago and have them hanging in my house.They bring back the warm richness of that time. I rarely watch movies now.
I’d say now that life doesn’t have a first and a second half. Life is one ongoing evolving structure. It’s goal seems to be a deeper understanding of what it is to be.