Safe travels, Togy. And how are you?
Doing good and am I happy.
When I was 5, my grandmother died - my father's mother - she had a wonderful singing voice, and the lullabies she sang to my father, he sang to me.
So not only did I get my love of singing from her...I learned that Singing IS love...talk about "lasting things"...
anyway, I digress:))..She died, and I remember thinking...but wait Grandmother has died, and yet the world goes on...how can that be?? Then this thought: Well, then one day I'll be gone too. The world can NOT go on without me...CAN it? Such is the self-centeredness of children. It was a scary thought, but the beginning of growing up.
Now, from the perspective of several decades later, the thought that I'll pass from this earthly life, and the world will go on...my children, my nephews & nieces, maybe grandchildren... all the things that we love & cherish...and beyond will survive me, And I'm truly comforted by that thought, in contrast to the one I had when I was a mere 5 years old....
Then this: I look up to the heavens (another interest-gift from my father) and again am comforted and awed of course by God's creation, and my small part in it... Add to that the idea that when we look up at Orion, say, ( it IS winter..), we are looking at it as it was Ages ago...oh my! What does THAT signify? One thing it says to me is this... look...look and see the past, just as generations have before you, and will who follow you. The past, the present, the future seem to co-exist in eternity, lasting things, and again, love and comfort surround me.