Memory is a circle of love that’s not always pleasant. It allows us to experience the present so we can take action moving toward the open future. It offers a passionate place to stand. The present unties the circle giving us the opportunity to spiral that remembered past into a new direction while memory weaves it all back into another circle.
That probably makes no sense.
The painful changes I have experienced through my life have been to watch parents, and others, get sick, emotionally and physically, understanding and misunderstanding these things as caused by environmental, agricultural, medical or dietary mistakes I once thought of as progress. It’s not that it was all wrong. It just needed some kind of correction that didn’t make sense to me earlier. As we let the circle untie and spiral forward there is no reason not to trust that we will do our best to add what we can to make it, in spite of everything, more beautiful.
That probably also makes no sense, but it does to me, until it doesn’t, but that’s when I can look forward to the heartbeat opening the future once again.
HAPPY PUMPKIN ORANGE
AUTUMN CHANGES MAPLE RED
SPIRALS ROUND AND ROUND
Linked to K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge with the theme circles. I am also linking to dVerse Haibun Monday where Merril D. Smith is hosting with the theme changes or transitions.
Photos: “Pumpkin Circles”, above, and “Pumpkin Spheres”, below.
I can relate to this line as we are always growing and moving on Frank: The present unties the circle giving us the opportunity to spiral that remembered past into a new direction while memory weaves it all back into another circle. From lessons of hindsight, I hope we can be better individuals.
Love the pumpkin photos and looks like you are ready for Halloween.
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I am as ready for Halloween as I will likely be. Thank you, Grace!
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I can see that spiral as building layer upon layer… maybe it does make sense actually in even more ways. When we keep changing it means that in some ways we are growing… the alternative is so much worse.
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The future is open spiraling forward. Thank you, Bjorn!
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It all makes perfect sense to me Frank …the words themselves don’t need to make sense very literally and clearly, they do convey exactly. I too feel so much that is seen as progress is being taken too seriously in a way that just doesn’t go well. All of us have these times of lessons that come from experiences or from discernment if we are able to sit back before making a choice.
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Sometimes the choices don’t turn out as expected, but it all seems to work out for the best. Thank you, Pragalbha!
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Very true, you are welcome Frank.
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Thank you for the thoughtful post. Yes, the circles and spirals make perfect sense to me. We see moments and movements reoccur throughout history–sometimes beautifully and sometimes tragically. Our own thoughts also circle round and round, and sometimes, too, we see physical traits passed down through generations.
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Our thought do keep circling or spiraling. I am glad you liked this and thank you for the prompt, Merril!
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I think you are right what we know and how we see things changes all the time. I loved your pumpkins. XX
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Thank you, Alison! The botanic garden usually does something unusual with pumpkins in October.
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Happy pumpkin season, Bjorn! This does indeed all make sense to me. I’ve often thought of life as a spiral….learning from mistakes….moving forward from them. With health too….an illness takes us back a bit but we rebound at the same spot we were and the spiral keeps moving forward. Sadly, with a very serious illness, sometimes ill health from old age, we may get well again, but the spiral doesn’t return to the same spot and it begins to spiral backwards. That’s when it truly gets tough.
Thankful for every day! 🙂
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Well….dufus me! Sorry, Frank. My senior moment and fingers typed Bjorn! Every else I’ve typed, except the wrong name, remains the same! I did enjoy your write, FRANK! 🙂
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The spiral doesn’t go backwards, which may all be for the best. Thank you, Lillian!
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“As we let the circle untie and spiral forward there is no reason not to trust that we will do our best to add what we can to make it, in spite of everything, more beautiful.”: This is inundated with such wisdom and thoughtfulness. I really liked this personal reflection of memories and the present taking it in a new direction.
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I am glad you liked this. Thank you, HA!
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Wow, your words alone easily qualifies this as THE most cosmic of the Cosmic Photo Challenge posts. Nice pumpkins, too.
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Thank you, Dale! I was looking for circles for the prompt and then found those pumpkins.
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Your thoughtful haibun brought to mind the DNA helix within us, spirals twisting into other spirals, all aping the cosmos. If life spiritually is a continuum then the cosmic circles, like those of the Olympics create the perfect vehicle.
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It is like that DNA helix now that you mention it. Thank you, Glenn!
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You will know my favorite analogy is that of a rock,it’s sharp edges falling from a mountain face and tumbling down mountain streams arriving at last to the valley smoothened and honed by its journey. Your story reminded me our lives are like that. Hopefully we reach that state of contentment when we forgive ourselves for what we might have done wrong, and accept that we did the best we knew how at any given time. I hope you have reached that state of contentment, Frank!
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May we all reach that state of contentment. Good analogy, Beverly!
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There is sense in your words, Frank. In retrospect, we can see things we couldn’t understand at the time. Thus life continues. Happy Hallowe’en.
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We do the best we can. Happy Halloween, V.J.!
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I like this a lot Frank! Life’s mysteries – we never stop learning do we? 🙂
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There is always something to learn. Thank you, Christine!
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We’re all caught in the vortex…(K)
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Yes, we are. Thank you, Kerfe!
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I totally understand! The circles and spirals. This puts in mind of DNA. Very wise Frank.
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Thank you, Toni!
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Frank, I’m trying to make sense of it. I can see it , sort of, I love a passionate place to stand. We can take the past and bring it into the present and make something beautiful of it for the future. Circles within circles, a spirograph of sorts. I will keep reading it.
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I don’t quite understand it, although I thought I did yesterday. Having a passionate place to stand still makes sense. Thank you, Mary!
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The spirals of the past help keep us in the forward moving circles of life. Love your smiling pumpkins!
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Those pumpkins are goofy. Thank you, Dwight!
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This is very poignant, Frank. I find it extremely hard when people in my life are ill – which is, unfortunately, quite often due to their chronic health problems.
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Illnesses are hard especially when one isn’t sure why they happen and wonder if things could have been different. Thank you, Robbie!
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I definitely get this, Frank. Those circles and spirals that we can’t stop keep recurring. I like the way you describe it: ‘the present unties the circle giving us the opportunity to spiral that remembered past into a new direction while memory weaves it all back into another circle’. It does make sense!
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The present gives us a chance to make a choice. Thank you, Kim!
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“That probably also makes no sense, but it does to me, until it doesn’t”
So much falls into that category.
Very nice, Frank.
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Today, I am not sure it makes any sense, but I am enjoying it anyway. Thank you, Dan!
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like the circles in the insides of a tree, going round and widening with age and time, it might not make sense then but it might in future, a reflective haibun Frank and one that makes more sense the more times i read it.
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I can see it in the future making more sense than now. Good point. Thank you, Gina!
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Lovely, perfectly sensible, haibun Frank. Round and round we go.
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Round and round. Thank you, Elizabeth!
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Ah life is an circle with beginning and end yet it feels spinning and spinning as we change! Deep!
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The spinning gets me dizzy with wonderment. Thank you!
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Ugh. I know the feeling. 🙂
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This does make sense Frank; for every season, turn,trun,turn, love that Byrds song and love your words!
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It is like the Byrds song. Thank you, Linda!
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It all makes sense, Frank – learning from experience and carrying on.
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We just carry on. Thank you!
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Excellent! Happy Halloween!🎃🎃🎃
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Happy Halloween!
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Thanks, Frank! Right back at you.🎃🎃🎃
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Thank you, K’lee!
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The more things change, the more they stay the same…until they don’t! Cleverly written, Frank!
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Thank you, Frank!
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SMiLes Frank Spirals and Circles
Of Life both in PHI and PI
Makes Plenty
of Sense
and Feel
to me
as Linear
is More Illusion
As Spirals and Circles
Endlessly Now out of Time
Distance and Space for True
for now
this
is a
Spiral
and A
Circle of me too..:)
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Both spirals and circles. Thank you, Fred!
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Works for
Me too..:)
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