On an ancient wall in China, A brooding Buddha blinks
Deeply graven is the message
– It is later than you think –
The clock of life is wound but once
And no man has the power to tell just when the hands will stop,
At late or early hour
Now is all the time you own, the past a golden link.
Go cruising now my brother
It is later than you think.”
(Author unknown)
A friend of mine went to a doctor for a diagnosis on an ailment which was giving him some mobility issues. When the doctor entered the room after studying the results of a battery of tests my friend asked him what was his prognosis. The Doctor paused and said “you are going to die. Not from this health problem but eventually you will die. That struck my friend like it did me. It is such true and obvious diagnosis as to be funny. He laughed with the doctor and thanked him very much for giving such an accurate and true, non-sugar coated medical diagnosis.
I had a similar conversation with Meredith. I received a call from her doctor after she had a scan done at the UAB Birmingham Medical Clinic in October of 2016. The big difference was she was going to die from her disease. No clue, hint, average life span of other victims, was offered as to a time line. New disease, not much data blah blah blah no medication, blah, blah, hospice blah, blah. Three years later, diagnosis proved accurate and now I am alone.
I am at a point in my pilgrimage on this blue marble we call Earth were I yearned to be. But in all my plans and dreams, “they were for “us”, not “me”. Part of the “New Norms”. It IS all about “me”.
Back to the heading. Wish Lists are Bucket Lists with out any planning. Simple as that. Bucket List “I sure would like to travel to a foreign country. Have you got your passport I ask. No. Wish list. One item on my Bucket List has been to see the Northern Lights. I have seen pictures, and more pictures of the lights. Like rainbows, the lights appear to be a gift from God. Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling. God paints the Northern Sky. I have a passport. It has pages of entrance and exit stamps. It even has a visa granting permission to travel in Russia. I leave in seventeen days for Iceland. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1505/LakeMyvatn_Brady_1080.jpg
