madshutterbug: (c)2009 by Myself (Expostulation)
I've just gotten back into my office from a short celebration downstairs in Hospital Atrium. See, tomorrow is a legal holiday, so Hospital will be on Holiday Routine. Just the duty crew in. And for this the celebrations got scheduled today.

Mostly... mostly I'm reserving what I've got to say for tomorrow, because it is a very significant day for me, to me. It carries that significance in big part because of some things one of the speakers said today, about defining moments in life. Which may be that brief instant, a moment, or may stretch across a longer span of time, possibly years. In either event, what happens then does indeed define a future self, whether we realise it or not.

Perhaps it brings this kind of a check-list for evaluating how a day is going:
Woke up? Yes (check)
Roof over my head? Yes (check)
Food? Yes (check)
Anyone shooting at me? No (check)
Anyone wake me up last night shooting at me? No (check)
Needed to patch anyone up recently while someone was shooting at me? No (check)
Most of my body parts still attached? Yes (check)

Life is good.

As I've answered the question before, there are only two melodies which always make me cry. Neither of them did the band play today; tomorrow, I'm sure, both will be played many places around the world.

They did provide a good cover on 'Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy' and 'In the Mood'.

Vivid

Aug. 17th, 2008 07:53 am
madshutterbug: (c)2009 by Myself (Expostulation)
There is something about new prescription lenses. It's an experience I don't necessarily recommend to someone who doesn't need to use corrective eyewear, and that everyone who does will probably recognise. Put on a brand-new pair of corrective lenses (whether eyeglasses or, I suppose contact lenses though I can't speak to that) and suddenly, everything in the world stands out and is...

Vivid.

It may be disorienting. It is attention-grabbing. Everything stands out, sometimes leaping out in fine-edged clarity that brings a pause and recollection at how transient life is. After all, mere seconds before the universe presented blurred edges hiding details. And this, too, this clarity will pass as well given time passing with an accumulation of scratches and lost tissue elasticity.

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