Disentanglement

Unexpected circumstances or communications can derail one’s mood, redirecting it for better or worse. Or, in some cases, both. For example, I was feeling positive, looking forward to a regularly scheduled wine dinner with friends tonight, followed by an afternoon meet-up another a friend tomorrow, when an unexpected ambulance trip to the ER yesterday morning intervened. The hospital visit erased those happy experiences from my calendar;  they both will happen eventually, just not as scheduled. A message and its attachment, though, softened the disappointment by calling my attention to insightful perspectives about filling the voids between emptiness and fulfillment. But even when the changes wrought to replace emptiness are positive, they can drag negativity along. Yet… We cannot expect light to fill all darkness.  Shadows coexist alongside the light that creates them.

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Travel-plans for scenic routes go awry in the face of detours—detours that lead down unpaved paths littered with potholes, nails, and carjackers. When the passenger is left at the gas station after a stop to re-set the “check-engine’ light,  he is at the mercy of attendants. Especially when the attendants might be better prepared to change the oil or vacuum the vehicle’s interior. Things can get particularly dicey when the “gas station” turns out to be a dentist’s office and the “attendants” are dental hygienists.

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Strings and wires may look alike, but their relative degrees of rigidity, among other attributes, set them apart. Wrapping a string around a wire, while not necessarily easy, is not as difficult as wrapping a wire around a string.

Acorns, scorn, and crayons are a lot alike, but in different ways.