Time rolls on...

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.
William Shakespeare

Oh, I feel you Wills. I feel you.


Time, time, time, see whats become of me
While I looked around
For my possibilities
I was so hard to please
Paul Simon

Mmm feel you too Pauly.

It's funny how precious time keeps slipping away... and yet sometimes it can't go by fast enough. Depending on which side of which event you're on. Lately, Time seems to have sped up. While that's clearly not a literal truth, it certainly seems so to me.
At present.
It seems only yesterday we welcomed our second daughter into the world.
It seems only yesterday we made the decision to return to our country of origin.
Well Mez and I's country of origin.
Maybe country of birth is a better thought.
Maybe it's better just to reflect on returning to the place where we belong.
Maybe it's just the place where we feel that we belong.
The place of both being, and the place of longing.
That deep, spiritual longing that yearns for... well, it yearns for many things.
Mostly those things that last.

Those things real enough to be measured by the heart.

Maybe it's enough just to say we're heading home.

I'm headed home
Yeah, but I'm not so sure
Home is a place
That'll ever look the same
Jon Foreman

So there's a mixture of emotions that surround this event. For certain there is apprehension, for certain there is joy, for certain this decision will be life changing.

But then, what decision isn't life changing?

So we head for home knowing that we won't be looking back. Well not past the nearest fork in this track of life... We've got some really good reasons for heading home:

and yet we leave behind some great reasons for staying. Maybe this decision is just pragmatism? Whatever the reasons it's happening, and approaching with exciting expediency!

The last couple of weeks have been pretty action packed... We celebrated Australia Day with some friends and enjoyed a BBQ and some backyard cricket while all the Kids amused themselves and stayed for the most part inside in the air conditioning and out of the sun.

Then the rains came, and flooded more than half of Queensland (62% was the figure given - which is about five times the entire land mass of NZ). Which is pretty extreme. Every day or two there is a death (or a few) reported related to the weather - fathers driving home and swept off roads, Another two lost this weekend, from a carload of five - all of whom were swept away by flood waters. A 5 year old presumed taken by a rogue, opportunistic Croc in a flooded creek off the Daintree river. Cairns has had flash flooding, which has affected a few in houses in some of the older parts of the city as well as a load of businesses. And we went in search of flooding last weekend. Drove down as far as Mission Beach and saw some of the flooded creeks. Went over parts of the road that are now (as I write) under water!


Went for a walk in the pelting rain and managed to get ourselves covered in Leeches, which was another thing to tick off our list of things experienced in life. Have had blood sucked. Tick.Have had little hickies on foot from critters. Tick. Got very wet walking in the rainforest. Tick. Felt more alive than in the last week sitting indoors watching the rain. Tick. Tick. Tick.

Good times.

Tick

Tock.