That last was so dark that I had to post something a bit lighter.
Change
–Louis Jenkins
From The Winter Road
All those things that have gone from your life, moon boots, TV
trays, and the Soviet Union, that seem to have vanished, are
really only changed, dinosaurs did not disappear from the earth
but evolved into birds and crock pots became bread makers.
Everything around you changes. It seems at times (only for a
moment) that your wife, the woman you love, might actually be
your first wife in another form. It’s a thought not to be pursued.
… Nothing is the same as it used to be. Except you, of course,
You haven’t changed … well, slowed down a bit, perhaps. It’s
more difficult nowadays to deal with the speed of change, dis-
turbing to suddenly find yourself brushing your teeth with what
appears to be a flashlight. But essentially you are the same as
ever, constant in your instability.
