September Strangeness
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izmeinaIzzie has been such a slacker of late. Been too busy squiggling over at the Superheroes and Popular culture online course that other lurking grounds in Cyberia have been seriously neglected.
It's now exactly 3 months (13 weeks to be precise) until Christmas Day. Scary how time flies and the older you get the quicker it goes.
This time in September is devoted to a certain serpentine ritual for the last 5 years or so at least although it's been formalized for about 4 of those.
It's not just Stalin and the North Koreans who have grand Five Year Plans. Even the ever so unambitious Izzie indulges in such planning fantasies. But strangely they have a way of working their magic which can often be noticed only after the event.
The Inner Witch insists on a particular implementation of this ritual. The basic idea using the formula of 3.1.5 - 3 months, 1 year and 5 years was snaffled from an inspiring couple who run Living Smart courses. The timing I chose to coincide with the solstices and equinoxes rather than the usual calendar quarters of 1st January, 1st April, 1st July and 1st October.
As well as writing out new lists in the little green notebook each quarter with the solstices and equinoxes as starting points, the ritual also involves peeking back at those entries whose time period expired with the dawn of the most recent new grand plans.
One of these had a list of trees to be planted by 21st September 2015. It was rather amusing to tick the almond tree off the list which I planted on Sunday 20th which had been brought over by Petunia only the previous day. I had invited the Dursleys for dinner on the Saturday just gone. Needless to say she knew nothing whatsoever about this list. The mulberry that did not make it in time got left outside the door yesterday. They paid a visit when the Izzie was out and about. It will get planted tomorrow morning so at least it will make it for the 5 year plan.
A few years ago acquiring a telescope was one of the items and it turned out to be a birthday present within six months once again without the giver having any idea of the existence of the list.
Other times it serves as a useful reminder to slow down and smell the roses. Sometimes it is so easy to look far and wide for something that is right under your nose but you simply haven't seen the bleeding obvious.
Such was the case with the list ending 21st June 2019 which included the wish to work in a library or a book store.
Well that was written in June 2014 exactly one month after starting a voluntary job for 2-3 hours every Monday working in a charity shop. By the end of those four weeks I had already moved from general duties to staking a claim to the rather large collection of book shelves - keeping them filled and sorting out new arrivals.
I realize that not only had I achieved this goal without realizing it but that I could also add a few more charity shops to the list. The pay isn't great but it's still books and with the rate of closures of mainstream book stores these days, soon the charity shops will be the only ones left.
As they say, you know it's something you truly love when you would do it for nothing.
There's also the perk of getting the pick of the best of the bunch before they go out on the shelves. It's almost like being a boozer working in a bottle shop - the ultimate dream job.
The Grand European Tour to Amsterdam, Vienna, Paris and Prague starting on Friday 25th September 2020 is just outside the time frame of this latest list but that does not stop the Izzie including the 'fact' that airline tickets and most accommodation will be booked and paid for in this week's 3-1-5 goal setting ritual.
The automated savings account of $50 per month for this purpose set up in July will be in itself insufficient but having a very clear and vivid purpose, goal or destination in mind has a very strange way of creating coincidences and synchronicities. Strange things happen when a serpent plans. And it's not just the cackle of the Gods on Olympus at such outrageous audacity.
Maybe it's time to add winning the Lotto Division 1 jackpot to the list.
It's now exactly 3 months (13 weeks to be precise) until Christmas Day. Scary how time flies and the older you get the quicker it goes.
This time in September is devoted to a certain serpentine ritual for the last 5 years or so at least although it's been formalized for about 4 of those.
It's not just Stalin and the North Koreans who have grand Five Year Plans. Even the ever so unambitious Izzie indulges in such planning fantasies. But strangely they have a way of working their magic which can often be noticed only after the event.
The Inner Witch insists on a particular implementation of this ritual. The basic idea using the formula of 3.1.5 - 3 months, 1 year and 5 years was snaffled from an inspiring couple who run Living Smart courses. The timing I chose to coincide with the solstices and equinoxes rather than the usual calendar quarters of 1st January, 1st April, 1st July and 1st October.
As well as writing out new lists in the little green notebook each quarter with the solstices and equinoxes as starting points, the ritual also involves peeking back at those entries whose time period expired with the dawn of the most recent new grand plans.
One of these had a list of trees to be planted by 21st September 2015. It was rather amusing to tick the almond tree off the list which I planted on Sunday 20th which had been brought over by Petunia only the previous day. I had invited the Dursleys for dinner on the Saturday just gone. Needless to say she knew nothing whatsoever about this list. The mulberry that did not make it in time got left outside the door yesterday. They paid a visit when the Izzie was out and about. It will get planted tomorrow morning so at least it will make it for the 5 year plan.
A few years ago acquiring a telescope was one of the items and it turned out to be a birthday present within six months once again without the giver having any idea of the existence of the list.
Other times it serves as a useful reminder to slow down and smell the roses. Sometimes it is so easy to look far and wide for something that is right under your nose but you simply haven't seen the bleeding obvious.
Such was the case with the list ending 21st June 2019 which included the wish to work in a library or a book store.
Well that was written in June 2014 exactly one month after starting a voluntary job for 2-3 hours every Monday working in a charity shop. By the end of those four weeks I had already moved from general duties to staking a claim to the rather large collection of book shelves - keeping them filled and sorting out new arrivals.
I realize that not only had I achieved this goal without realizing it but that I could also add a few more charity shops to the list. The pay isn't great but it's still books and with the rate of closures of mainstream book stores these days, soon the charity shops will be the only ones left.
As they say, you know it's something you truly love when you would do it for nothing.
There's also the perk of getting the pick of the best of the bunch before they go out on the shelves. It's almost like being a boozer working in a bottle shop - the ultimate dream job.
The Grand European Tour to Amsterdam, Vienna, Paris and Prague starting on Friday 25th September 2020 is just outside the time frame of this latest list but that does not stop the Izzie including the 'fact' that airline tickets and most accommodation will be booked and paid for in this week's 3-1-5 goal setting ritual.
The automated savings account of $50 per month for this purpose set up in July will be in itself insufficient but having a very clear and vivid purpose, goal or destination in mind has a very strange way of creating coincidences and synchronicities. Strange things happen when a serpent plans. And it's not just the cackle of the Gods on Olympus at such outrageous audacity.
Maybe it's time to add winning the Lotto Division 1 jackpot to the list.
The ninth wave
Date: 2015-09-26 02:33 pm (UTC)