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   Thursday, September 25, 2003

ROUND AND ROUND

We like to think that our lives are linear, moving from birth-point-A to death-point-B, but I'm always struck by how old patterns reassert themselves, how the future never looks the same way twice and how the past keeps popping back up again. No real concrete events have happened lately to highlight this -- other than a welcome dinner this evening with a friend I haven't really said more than a sentence to in about a year -- but it's a general mood I've had this past month. I don't feel as though I'm moving forward on a road that leads off into the distance, but rather standing still as life swirls around me in a circle, as I catch glimpses of all of it. This feeling is sometimes a comfort, sometimes a curse.