Almost enough about the weather already but, okay, I’ll allow just one more.
It is Wednesday now and the sun is STILL out and shining and it is a bit warmer then yesterday. But it is very, very windy. I have been out for a ride today and am feeling better about some things and not so sure or good about others. I am parked now in my driveway and using this portable computer (some call it a laptop but I long ago quit using it that way due to very hot batteries) to compose today’s entry.
This is now the third day and, for three days, assuming that I post this one, I will have posted an entry on to this blogpad. Hey, for me that almost amounts to success. For in all the very little I have achieved in my life this may rank right up there with the best of the mediocre. Wonder how I’ll be feeling if I hit four or even five days in a row.
I may even attempt a double entry one day soon- not sure I’ll be able to handle that much productivity though. Will need to tough it out.
So what’s with the stars and what’s with the stripes and what has that to do with anything associated with the name of this site? Or even with any of the entries posted so far, these three (yes, that’s right, I said three!) days in a row?
Heck, I’m not sure that I know y’know?
Perhaps it had something to do with how I once felt about this country- not feeling that much anymore. Maybe it had to do with the sense of pride I used to feel when seeing the flag and hearing the anthem- how quaint and so 19th century. Or it could be that, to me, one represents the beginning as the other trends toward the eventual (imminent?) ending.
Stripes then (there are 13 right?) and stars now (all 50, red or blue, left or right, big or small, contiguous or otherwise..) Does that even make any sense? If not then I am sorry.
I think that I am more of a stripe kind of guy. I managed somehow to know a good bit of history so have been able for the most part to see around and through all that which tends to get bent or even twisted depending on the what, where and whofrom associated with the sender.
History. How quaint, how useless, how, well, 19th century.
How much do you know? Can you give a decent rundown of the major successes and failings of the centuries? What worked and what did not? Or do you just repeat what you hear from your favorite media source or college professor? Beware the past lest you play the rerun.
So stars, so stripes. Wave it still does. And today it does so in the chilling cold of coming winter. I see tatters and I see tears (is that a tare tear or a tier tear?) I see what was and what may be coming and I worry that confidence can decay and success can fully wither when what was known no longer is. Tread with care, live near fear. Beware the Ides of March.