We now have a new addition to the family. Everyone, I’d like you to meet Asja (Ася):
She is an 11 week old Siberian Husky. Everyone who meets her loves her. We got her from the lovely people (Niko & Patricia) at www.arcticwolf.at. At the moment she is still learning her new home and world. More photos can be found here and I’ll post them from time to time as I take more and she grows.
Life is short. Far too short.
Friday the 4th of May 2007 marked the end of one life’s story and the end of a major chapter of my own. John Michael Falvey, my father, the one constant in my life ceased to be. While I was not able to be with him during his final moments, I was blessed enough to have been able to spend several weeks with him earlier this year when I returned to Australia on holidays.
I have never been one for people morning those who pass. I believe that people do not morn because they grieve for the person who has passed, but rather they grieve for their own sorrow and loss. I morn now. I grieve that I will never see him again. I grieve that the man I have know all my life, who has always been there for me, who has always cared for me, will no longer be there, can no longer care. However at the same time I understand that this is the natural cycle of the universe. Everything is created to eventually be returned to dust. Everything has it’s time and place. My father’s place was here, however his time is now over. Such is the circle of time where the only constant is change..
You are no longer here, but will never be forgotten…
Recently, a colleague of mine accused me of being a pessimist. This to me is nothing new because basically, I am. However I proceeded to reply with my standard quip of, “I’m not a pessimist, I’m a realist.” So in reply he asked me if I was a “glass half full”, or a “glass half empty” person. Now this whole half full half empty stuff annoys me so I turned smart ass on him and replied “It’s half a glass. It doesn’t matter if it’s half full or half empty. Statement of fact is it’s just half a glass”. So this got me to thinking, why should it matter if it is half full or half empty? The only point at which this could even come into the thinking about said glass, is if you look at it from a reflective point of view. Did you already consume half the glass and have yet another half to look forward to consuming? Or did you only receive half a glass and are miffed that you didn’t receive a full glass? If you look at it from this light, doesn’t that mean that a half empty glass (of which you have already consumed half) is better to have than a half full glass that some bugger was too cheap to fill up all the way?
However, if you want to live in the here and now and not the then and there, “Half a glass is, just half a glass.” Enjoy it, savor it, you have it here and now…
