Deeply

​Lightly, my darling . . .
Learn to do everything lightly.
Yes, feel lightly even though you're feeling deeply.

• — Aldous Huxley

Tough advice, right? It's hard to move lightly when I feel deeply but sometimes the pieces are delicate, pieces of my heart or someone else's. Or perhaps the situation is precarious.

I'm in a perpetually precarious spot currently, learning to hover lightly over my life and not get fussed when I can't see too far ahead. Currently I have plans through November and after that my life is a mystery. My career is changing, which is good; and even though it means starting over in certain regards I'm actually excited about it. I'll take the severe pay cuts and knowing I'll make a lot of mistakes in order to learn something new. 

Also, I started this photo project right before I turned 46 and I'm about to turn 47.  That's another strange and precarious position, to have a birthday and look forward to another year while looking back on this one. But it's fall in the northern hemisphere and that's my favorite time of year so it sweetens the prospect of getting older and feeling conflicted about it.. 

Finally, I like the way the windows in this picture make me think of a film strip. An outtake of my present day.

I hope all of you in the blogosphere are doing something sweet for yourselves today. XOX