Passing Shadows
March - It's a bad habit I have that I tend to walk down the street perpetually envisioning a scene that I hope is around the next bend.  There are moments when I'm happy to be where I am, but it's such a habit to be looking towards a horizon that seems near but never actually arrives, that never do I sit back and completely live the moment.  What I'm beginning to realize is that the forward march of progress or regression is never a completed process.  Giving up would be a worse habit I suppose, but like the shadows on the pavement in this picture, the eventual state of there being no trace of even our most fervent efforts seems to be urging me to take it easy....     Copyright 2004 - Lyle H Saxon, Images Through Glass, Tokyo