I'm not sure I believe this today, but I'm ready to try:
Everybody talks about wanting to change things
and help and fix,
but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself.
And that's a lot.
Because if you can fix yourself,
it has a ripple effect.
~ Rob Reiner
I find myself thinking and worrying about so many things I have no control over. The climate, the government, the ignorance and cruelty that I see around me, and on the news, every day.
This morning I'm thinking again that ignorance really is bliss, and I'm ready for a little bliss.
Should I continue to educate myself about things, BIG things outside myself, things that matter to me, knowing that I can't do a damn thing about them. Knowing that so few people around me feel the need to know or care.
That's what I ask myself more and more these days.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, that's OK. Even I need to vent and rant about something here once in a while.
This is the view from our kitchen this morning.
There's not much fall color this year, but a glimpse of the morning sun through the trees still warms the soul, if not the body.
Maybe that's all the knowledge I need, too, just little glimpses, enough for me to get by in life. Too much knowledge may turn me into Icarus.
Henri Matisse
"Icarus"
1947
