Palate Cleanser
Since I haven’t written lyrically for a while I’m going to take the chance now as a brief interlude. You deserve a break from my relentless adventuring just like my legs do. Please enjoy this palate cleanser, a term I also affectionately refer to commercial fiction genre books as, to give your brain a break.
May you curl up with a good book and a tasty, hot beverage
During this season of reflection upon the human experience, errr what it means to exist, my thoughts wander a bit more. Maybe even more dramatically. I’m sure your’s does too. It’s simply winter’s tools. And so I’ve been wondering, have you ever read the novel Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin?
I ask because Zevin richly weaves the undercurrents of life throughout the relationships in the novel by using clever, creative allegories. It feels as if life is expressing itself. It resonates in shocking, achingly sweet (no, achingly bitter) ways. Oddly, it can be described by words straight off the author’s pen, “It’s the story of failure and of perseverance, of the discipline of a craftsman, of the life of an artist.” Although the simplest synopsis is Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow follows two friends who are gamers and decide to create a video game together, the tale winds into an intoxicatingly deep, both meaningful and intellectual, lifetime.
Someday, I hope you find the time to read it if you haven’t already. What I really want to share about the book, I feel I can’t, rather shouldn’t, because it is the soul of the overarching theme. It happens to be the same idea of the holiday greeting my alma mater sent me, “May your holiday season illuminate possibility...” and I’ve latched onto this concept tightly. Hoping these things for you; that this season will illuminate possibility for you.
Afterall, possibility is what we need most, right? We need to know it is out there slightly beyond us, lingering in the shadows if we only dare to take the risk to look, reach, dream. Dare we? Let’s consider the view of the two main characters on possibility, “While Sadie experienced this period of indecision as stressful, Sam didn’t feel that way at all. The best part of this moment, he thought, is that everything is still possible.” Which are you? And which do you wish to be?
The planets are aligning and let that guide you. Whatever this message conjures for you, may this winter be the portal you step through to propel you into the full, magical sparkling light of whatever possibility you desire. What is it that you truly desire?
Speak it. Create it. Share it. Savor it. Dare it.