It’s been a while since I have taken up writing. A albeit extended hiatus. So much has happened since I last posted something. Various, disparate lines are converging. Life has become like a symphony, entering the closing movement in which all previous themes are reprised and blended. Or like a novel in which the subplots are, with each passing chapter, revealing themselves to be ever more crucial to the main tale. I do not mean to imply that there’s anything ’final’ about what’s happening now. My journey will go on for many more delightful miles… but soon, I’ll reach a clear conclusion about which major road I am due to go down next. An array of bewildering options is boiling down to one inevitable choice.

Once bitten, twice shy. But what about thrice? Could it be third time lucky? When I look at things that has gone badly awry in the past. Since my disappointing experiences, I have steered clear of any painful repetition. Out of the corner of my eye though, I have been watching the situation carefully and making tentative attempts to see if it has improved. Something does seem to have altered now. Is it madness to have another go? Not if I am ready to apply all that I have learned. If I look back over my life, I may spot a pattern. I go through a phase during which everything changes at the speed of light. Then I stay in roughly the same position for a while. Then, just when I am ready to consider myself settled, the process of wild upheaval begins again.