Somethin' new, somethin' different

Something old, something new.
Something borrowed, something blue.

So goes a rhyme my mother used to say.
I never really knew exactly what it meant.
I think it had something to do with wedding gifts.

But that's not the point here.
The point is, for some time now,
weeks, months, years ... I've been saying
I'm not entirely happy with the way my life is working.

There are definitely good aspects.
I have a job working for the academy.
I love teaching about systems, life & Gaia.
I have a roof, & rent is paid for February.
I know where my next meal is coming from.

I can't say for sure that will be true two months from now. The economic crunch is challenging the academy like everyone else. (For some reason, courses about the largest climate event in 50 million years doesn't sell as well now as beer & movies.)

But at least, for now, I'm covered. Life is good.

Yet, something is missing. In fact, several things:

• a bunch of days off (my last full one was July 6, 2007)
• a dentist visit, medical check up & a savings account
  
• more play in my work
  

Hmm. More play in my work. I'm not quite sure yet what that means, yet, but it keeps popping up, so I'm going to explore it ... here, in this post, over the next few days/weeks while I simultaneously continue to develop the one below on rhythms. Somehow, I suspect the two are linked. In fact, I'm sure of it.

Why? Because that thought always occurs to me when I'm playing Rule 110 (described in that next post).

Which, by the way, I was practicing when I stopped to write this as a note to myself to develop somethin' new, somethin' different.

I'm going back to practice 110 some more now.
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More later ...