Time Keeps on Slippin'
Things have been a little bitter in my neck of the woods...I am a summer girl. I love, love, love me a sundress and a gin and tonic, but this year it was still snowing in May in my great city. We pretty much missed spring, I slept in a couple days, and now it’s August.
How the hell can it be August?
There is only one explanation and it has something to do with a time/space vortex warp thingy –this is the technical term, of course. Those of you who are less sciency go ahead and Google it. (Side note: can you believe sciency is a word now?)
The only summer thing I’ve done so far is plant some flowers on my deck, and take a trip to Vancouver Island with my man Doug; sea kayaking in Tofino was beautiful and freezing. You will note Doug has a habit of not paddling, which helped keep me warm but did not improve our relationship.
The beaches were gorgeous but, call me crazy, it just seems wrong to me to be on a beach in July wishing I had brought a slightly heavier jacket.
We drove all over the island, listening to the ‘70s on 7’ – we had Sirius radio in the rental car. Did you know John Travolta had a Top 10 hit in July 1976? We didn’t and it was HORR-I-BLE but the countdown was amazing crazy – Neil Diamond, The Beatles, Queen & The Bee Gees all on the charts in the same week?
Other adventures including sleeping in a sphere suspended in the trees and learning how to fire a semi-automatic weapon in preparation for the impending zombie apocalypse. Then we saw Les Miserables. Seriously. It was a diverse trip to say the least. (Check out my Instagram for more pics.)
Back to Tofino, I picked up a July copy of a local free publication called Tofino Time and flipped to my horoscope written by Karedwyn Bird, a local Artist and Astrologer:
Scorpio–There is more to you than you’d suspect. Of the 100 trillion cells composing your composition, only 10% are human. To the other 900 trillion, you’re the host planet. So, since it’s summer n’all, why not take time to make friends with your whole world? Establish a benign dictatorship and take change of your internal state of affairs. “If you want to live, shout it out. Change any patterns or habits that are not in synchronicity with this desire. Let is resonate throughout your entirety.” – (Adam, Dream Healer). The night of the Full ‘Moon of Much Ripening’ on the weekend of the 12th is the perfect time to make a change.
Now that’s a horoscope, right?!?!
It’s funny and it’s silly, but it got me thinking. I DO need to take charge of my internal state of affairs. Since I didn’t read the horoscope until nearly the end of July, I obviously didn’t have a chance to make a change on the weekend of the 12th, so today is the day!
Right now, or tomorrow at the latest, I will STOP obsessing about how time seems to be accelerating, and START spending time doing all the stuff I want to do. Write, read, hang out with cool people WHILE wearing summer clothes and drinking G&Ts outside. Oh, yes. There will still be multi-tasking under my regime – it will just be more fun. And now I know why my hands get so cold...I’m only 10% human. Cheers to a great rest of the summer!
