Friday 4 December 2020

Way Down the Road

Last night was a very wet night, it rained so hard and for so long and early this morning , it was pouring out of people's drives, part flooding the roads and water-logging the farm land. With some degree of trepidation I drove out to the reserve this morning along a Harty Road that was full of large puddles of water.

The reserve was as I expected it would be, the grazing meadows were water-logged and muddy, the ditches had at last got more than a few inches of water in them and the wind was icily cold. Looking across The Swale to the mainland, the top fields of the North Downs were covered in snow, yes, it was indeed a cold and wet morning. Gun shots briefly rung out, followed immediately by the sound of the "barking" calls of over a thousand Brent Geese rising up from the neighbouring farmland's winter corn - clearly the farmer was attempting to scare the geese away from their daily breakfast of his next year's crop.

It was bitterly cold, wet and muddy and I really wasn't enjoying it and so I left for home after a rare short visit. I hate giving in to the weather but as basically a warm weather person, there are some days when the weather wins the battle. I plonked myself down in the conservatory, put on the heating, put on some Joni Mitchell and gradually became lost in idle thoughts of, once upon a time. 

 Way back in my teenage and early twenties years, Bob Dylan sang about how "tomorrow is a long time" and throughout those years that was the kind of mantra that I lived by. I was young, the life ahead of me was an endless highway, and old age was a lifetime away - tomorrow is a long time and always to be enjoyed, what did I care. Buoyed by those thought I set out into my adult life - loves and disappointments, marriages and divorces, wealth and poverty - too many crossroads. And now, at 73, the highway that I've already traveled is the longest one, and the one still ahead gets shorter every day, the tomorrows slip by too fast, the bend in the road is the final one.

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  1. This is a post that I can identify with today. I turned 70 this year and whenever I hear that someone has died, I always think of their age and calculate how many years from my current year. Silly to worry about what is ahead when I cannot do anything about it really. Better to focus on now and the good I can find around me. Easier said than done some days.

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    1. Like you say, easier said than done.

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  2. You are in a philosophical mood today Derek.

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  3. Yes, it's been a pretty dire day Pat and a job to feel cheerful about much.

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  4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR-qQcNT_fY

    I would remind you of Madeline L'Engle: 'The best part of growing old is that you never lose the other ages you've been.'

    I am 10 years behind you, and I grapple with the same realities that you do. Sometimes, I look back, just as you did today. There is a bittersweetness to remembering. But I remember one day, when four of us sat talking in a chemo room. Oh, how we laughed together, and now looking back I think how strange it was that we were cutting up so in a place like that. But it is 12 years ago, and out of the four of us, I am the only one left.

    I will never be sorry to see life passing.

    I hope that tomorrow is a better day for you, Derek!

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  5. I liked that quote, Debbie. Thanks for commenting, I've always struggled with winters.

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  6. I am with you on this , Derek, it's the arsehole of the year! Why the ancients had a celebration at the winter solstice to mark the sun's gradual return. We have turned this into "Christmas", but it shows that all humanity, in the Northern hemisphere anyway, has always felt this way.
    "This, to, will pass."

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  10. Seasons Greeting Derek. There's a tough few months ahead but you have the reserve which is a godsend.

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