verbigeration (vuhr-bij-uh-RAY-shun) noun
Obsessive repetition of meaningless words and phrases.
A month passes without a peep and here I am, a train stopped in spring. Sixty degrees outside, the sun shines calm rays while I sip coffee and contemplate change. Like the weather, I stumble between decisions--a week of heat, a day of frost--but May always stands as a month of assertion and finality, of graduation. Part of this past April included a breakfast conversation with my mom. She flew in to attend a conference downtown and we scheduled a morning one-on-one, an understood kind of meeting with expectations of such phrases as "your future" and "you can always" and "don't worry". No matter the gravity of the moment or situation, Mom (in a universal sense, really, or at least, hopefully) delivers a wisdom of balance. Over Swedish pancakes and eggs she said, "Zach, just make a choice. It doesn't matter what it is. When you make it, that will be the right one. But you have to make a choice."
Faced now with a cap and gown
only visible to me,
I must reconcile all the trials
and try again to dream.
1 comment:
Choice is an illusion which we cling to when we feel powerless in the face of adversity. The most difficult choice, and maybe even most noble, is to choose not to choose.
Don't get me wrong, Moms have this uncanny way to be full of wisdom which to us seems rootless and mysterious. It's always good to listen to Mom.
Got me wondering what the choice is about though. :)
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