my week in review

Life molds us, conditions us, blesses us, damages us, both strengthens and weakens us; within and without renders us beautiful, hideous, or plain, aware or oblivious, fearful or confident, inquiring or certain, hopeful or despairing. 

Time most subtly, but experience, love, loss, hatred, trauma, victory, challenge, vision & hindsight; our perception of ourselves, our perception of others, and our perception of others’ perception of us.

Life itself, and Life's agent Time.

Perhaps in Time to Forgive but Never to Forget.

Images from Narnia and Tolkien that came to mind this week, creatures from The Ring, words from Lewis.

"Go quickly. Summon all our people to meet me here as speedily as they can. Call out the giants and the werewolves and the spirits of those trees who are on our side. Call the Ghouls, and the Boggles, the Ogres and the Minotaurs. Call the Cruels, the Hags, the Spectres, and the people of the Toadstools. We will fight. ... "

At this moment the children were for a few seconds in very great danger. For with wild cries and a noise of skirling pipes and shrill horns blowing, the whole of that vile rabble came sweeping off the hill-top and down the slope right past their hiding-place. They felt the Spectres go by them like a cold wind and they felt the ground shake beneath them under the galloping feet of the Minotaurs; and overhead there went a flurry of foul wings and a blackness of vultures and giant bats. 

There is darkness, and there is light; dusk and dawn. You have your references, I have mine.

BLM&PTL

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