You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she's not deadly. She's beautiful and she's laughing. - Hélène Cixous
Finally, finally, finally there's rain on the roof! It feels like it's been forever since I've heard rain on the roof.
This week I've been thinking quite a bit about... well, stuff that doesn't make for very interesting newsletters. I got hit by a Microsoft Update bug (they've fixed the release since), but it wiped out nearly two days of work because it hit around 50K people and IT was swamped with people. Yesterday was useless trying to get in line. I went straight there this morning, and was told it was a four hour wait, so you can imagine my delight to hear my name after not quite two hours! Lots of people thought they'd come back later or something and missed hearing their names called, probably 20-30 of them, so... yay me! And then the rest of today I spent setting up my computer again. I think everything is mostly in place at this point.
I guess the other thing that I've been thinking about this week is the nature of change. You can't really control it, so you just have to hang on and kind of go with it and see where it leads you.
Noodling around as M2 has been reading the Odyssey for English, I learned something I didn't know about Medusa. She is, of course, the mother of Pegasus and Chrysaor, born from her neck after Perseus cut her head off. Pegasus went and lived on Olympus and brought Zeus the roar and death stare from Medusa when he wanted them. Which is to say, thunder and lightening. Lol - and right on cue, there's some thunder and the rain pours harder... Anyway - who doesn't freeze in their tracks - at least a little bit!? - when a bolt of lightening or a roar of thunder catches them unaware? At the moment, I'm totally enchanted by this idea that thunder and lightening are Medusa's roar and stare.
Mmm. I keep getting lost in the sound of the rain. Rain and change and change and rain and the only thing that can be done is to identify the next small step in the right direction and just keep on moving. Which is pretty much always the case after all things are always changing and there is always only the eternal now.
With love and rain and curiosity,
--Susan