My time line

These words popped into my head this morning.

“Getting from the bottom to the top is important. The top is just a dot on your timeline.”

Recently I blogged about writing a book or not. In the blog, I talked about how the book was going to be a short memoir entitled, “My Ordinary Life” and then I realized my life wasn’t ordinary after all. My maternal grandmother, Mama-g collected artist books. These were books illustrated or made by artists. For example, she had an edition of Aesops’ Fables in an XXL size illustrated by David Hockey and I remember one that looked like a vinyl record from the cover. This got me thinking. What if I took the concept of the artist book that my grandmother collected and merged it with my now titled memoir, “My Not So Ordinary Life” to create my book. Using the words that popped into my head this morning I would make an accordion book that was a timeline of my life. This would very clearly illustrate that the journey is the important part, while the dots on the lines are mere markers of life gone by. A lot of us, I included, spend time rehashing past experiences, conversations, and events and to no avail because time travel doesn’t exist. Sylvie has mentioned that she feels it was stupid on my part and her father’s part not to take the house I grew up in when my mother was selling the brownstone many years ago. There were reasons beyond the comprehension of a teenager as to why we didn’t “buy” the house (plus she didn’t come into our lives until almost 2 years later). The timeline would make those past conversations, experiences, and events into stepping stones that got me to where I am today and remind me (and you) that the past is over and done with and should stay that way. So, here’s to living in the present and awaiting what comes (the future).