Haven’t written in quite some time. Probably because I am spending most of my waking hours in the evenings glued to the likes of downhill skiing and short track speed skating. I absolutely love the winter Olympics. The idea that people spend years of their lives in pursuit of an Olympic medal, that encompasses often only minutes or seconds of actual competition, is to me mind boggling…. not to mention in the winter Olympics these men and women are doing remarkably scary things. I went into a full “Olympic style” tuck for about 20 seconds when I entered the green circle portion of the downhill course last weekend at mount Shasta, and I got scared. Luckily I had the 3 year old soaring by me to remind me that fear is nothing more than a state of mind. I guess one reserved for those 30 and above!
The last few weekends with Wendy at home and no longer working have been just wonderful. We have been taking time to be outside, and together as a family. I can tell Layla has been enjoying it as well. Mr. Baby Pasquini is cooking and by the signs of Wendy’s protruding “Baby Button”, the pressure cooker is reaching boiling point. I still envy the marvel that is pregnancy and the birth of new life. So mind boggling that most of the time I just accept it, without taking time to truly enjoy it.
A local Author just wrote a book about human Soul’s in limbo awaiting to be reborn into their new bodies. They were so eager to return to a flesh and blood body that they would not take time to analyze the families into whom they were about to be born, or for that matter the sex. The author I believe is gay, in the book her soul is that of a man “trapped” in a woman’s body. Made me think if human souls would ever be able to have a sex, I suppose not. I wonder if our new baby’s soul is recycled material, a soul which upon birth looses it’s awareness. I doubt that we could ever take life’s journey in this way. I have been thinking that life, is God’s way of discovering itself, just as death is our way of reuniting with God. The question I suppose is what then is that space in between?