What is the biggest challenge you will face in the next six months?

As with light which travels in a straight line, we cannot bend to see what is around the corner.

There may be events anticipated, planned even. There could be dreams to be fulfilled, ambitions to be met, expectations, needs and wants. Sadly there may also be the inevitable or expected passing of a loved one, human or animal.

The American statesmen Benjamin Franklin has been often quoted as saying ‘ ..but in this world nothing is said to be certain, except death and taxes’………

…………The sky is so beautifully blue, puffy little white clouds are idly passing by. There is warmth in the sun. I sit on the mountainside. The grass looks healthy and feels to me keen to grow. There is an energy there. Despite the grass growing underneath me, the clouds passing by and the most gentle of breeze, it is still. Around me, absolute stillness.

If I look up over my shoulder I see part of the path heading to the peak and looking down into a picture of a life lived so far.

Like all folk there have been rapids to navigate, swamps to wade through and rocky roads stumbled along. The waves surfed and the even ground have offered respite.

I’m not looking into the future, wondering and wanting. I’m simply sitting here on the mountainside, enjoying the moment.