once more, from the top

Looks who’s come sauntering back…

me. 

I haven’t updated in a couple of months; I didn’t even notice that the server had gone haywire until recently.  Kindly enough a friend prompted me to revive the Web site and restored it back to what it once was [almost].  As the entry prior indicates, the rest of my posts will be brought back shortly. 

As usual, I’m in another temporary location taking care of someone’s feline while they’re on vacation.  I’ve gained the reputation as the resident “cat-sitter” and while those aloof creatures are among my favorite friends, I’m reminded how thankful I am to only have this responsibility on an impermanent basis. 

In between busing, walking and contemplating, most of my hours have been spent at work, on occasion spending unpredictably long hours there.  I don’t mind most of the time.  I’m increasingly becoming more accustomed to my newest duties.  Part of the responsibility lies in being self-aware, trying to be cognizant of what’s fueling my actions.  When you work in a team and have to help encourage the strengths of the friends it’s important, however difficult at times, to think of the interests of the work over your own.  

However much I may quietly complain, I enjoy it all more than what I may let on at times.  Things just have a way of inserting themselves into conversations–comments that can be labeled as self-defeating or a little more pessimistic than intended.  Thankfully, other people are there to help point that out.  What can I say?  Life here is a fast-paced environment of action and reflection.  When viewed in the right spirit, there’s a lot of learning to be had.

Be not content with the ease of a passing day, and deprive not thyself of everlasting rest.  Barter not the garden of eternal delight for the dust-heap of a mortal world.  Up from thy prison ascend unto the glorious meads above, and from thy mortal cage wing thy flight unto the paradise of the Placeless. -Bahá’u’lláh