Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too.

 ~ Marcus Aurelius-Meditations

Do you remember the old Star Trek episode “The City on the Edge of Forever”?  Kirk and Spock pursue an hallucinating McCoy to 1930’s New York City through ‘The Guardian of Forever’.  While in the past Kirk meets and falls in love with Edith Keeler. (of course he does, he’s James T. Kirk) Unbeknownst to Kirk, McCoy has stumbled into the mission where Edith takes him in. Meanwhile, through reviewing the Guardian’s images of the original and altered timelines, Spock has discovered that Edith was supposed to have died in a traffic accident which McCoy prevented.  Kirk knows that Edith must die in order for time to return to normal.  In the end, Kirk does what he believes is the right. “Time has resumed its shape. All is as it was before.”  

Forty seven years have passed since Harlan Ellison’s screenplay was first televised.  Last week I was reminded of that story, the fluidity of time.  People. Places.  Peace.

…..And found myself at the portal of my own “The Guardian of Forever”.

Children grow up. Parents age. Friends get sick, some die. It is the natural course of things. Surrender. Letting go. Time, like life, can be about choice. How we choose to spend it. Open to and examining the possible. Riding the wave of time.

Sometimes we grasp so tight, the ‘water’ slips through our fingers.  

 

 

 

 

As much as wish for it, time doesn’t stand still…..nor would we really want it to.

 

 

 

 

“Seize the day, then let it go.”  ~ Marty Rubin 

Life happens bit-by-bit, drop-by-drop, moment-by-moment. Accepting people as they are and ourselves where we are. Discovering  joy along the current. Not perfection. Not manipulation. But joy. Even James T. Kirk knew he couldn’t trick “flow of time” but be content knowing he found peace.