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Reviewing A Week: Soul Insights
Let me begin with dates, since this is a review of the week. I looked up to the shelf where my beautiful desk calendar stood, and it says September. It is October, and I remember turning that page late in August.
Are we always chasing after time, that master who strides at a pace we never really can keep up with?
From my window, the pounding noises from the construction of the North-South Corridor punctuates like so many exclamation marks: we have a dealine to catch, with the pneumatic drill adding the dramatic ellipses…
To review the week, to look back, then seems such a weak gesture, when all the forces around conspire to keep one resolutely strutting forward, the end of it all, not often discussed or even questioned.
But as Alicke Walker in The Colour Purple put it,
If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.
This fight, to stand in the swirling current of Time and refuse to be swept by it, is at times, to press pause to do a reveiw.
(I stand up to flip the calendar so I can locate the dates)
Since today is October 4th, the week I want to review began in September (and the calendar tells me to think…