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This blog is less than an experiment, and it isn't about anything.
It's about about-nessthe thing of the thing, not the thing itself.
Hence "meta"what one thinks about what one thinks about.
And what one thinks about what one thinks about what one thinks about.
And so on.

Saturday, May 26, 2012

Beginnings

Today is a new beginning.  

Our yesterdays were new beginnings.  Tomorrow, another.  And each day after, new beginnings all.  In a minute, too, another new beginning.  

Each past moment, those old new beginnings?  Gone.  And each future moment is a matter for speculation only.    At this time, this new beginning—this "now"—is all we have.  

So many second chances, piling on, one after one another.  We lose them all, utterly, failing time and again.  I mean we fail, because we can't possibly succeed in any one moment.  Unless we're dodging a bullet... and how often do we walk away unscathed when we dodge bullets?

It's up to each of us to consider this moment as our best chance, to make the most of it, in spite of the odds.