I’ll have to preface this blog post with some local information, and by ‘local’ I mean Australian information. OK – the team I mention, Fremantle, is an Australian Football League team. They are from Western Australia, and they were playing football today. The game was broadcast on one of the Fox Football channels. Fremantle isn’t my top favourite AFL team, that is the Adelaide Crows. Fremantle is a close second favourite team.
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I wrote an excellent blog post while the Fremantle game was on. Then once I’d almost finished, I accidentally deleted it. Not asking for help, it’s gone, just sad, because it really truly was a great blog post. But Fremantle won, and that’s a good thing, and I went and put away most of the clothes washed today, and that’s a good thing too.
Bad things happen, good things happen, and life continues on, whatever happens. But oh, bloody stupid WordPress, clumsy me – I don’t even know how I deleted the post but I did … and it’s gone.
I may rewrite it, I may not, who knows. I’ll just sit with the thing that happened and look out of the window a bit, at the sky with the clouds, and at the trees blowing in the wind, and know that there are far worse things that can happen, and that I can always write another on the same thing, remembering some of what I’d written, maybe not, but I’ll never really know.
I might never re-write it, or I may do an even better version … But the sun shining through the window will go down later on, and come up, shining through different windows, and that will go on happening, no matter what I do, or don’t do. That is the good thing that happens every day – no matter what happens, when the sun goes down, I know it will be back again tomorrow morning.
And now, looking at that photograph just above this, I can see lots of crazy cloud creatures, and that makes me happy, because I can remember the sad time when I couldn’t see anything in the clouds, just clouds, no puppy dogs, or dragons, or horses, just clouds. As long as I can still see the creatures in the clouds, I know I’m OK, maybe a bit sad, but OK, and that’s enough.
Carolyn Cordon - Creative 