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Full Speed Ahead—Facing Backwards?

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Digital illo: Backward-ForwardJittery Janus

A slight, but real, absurdity is troubling my mind:

If something is in back of me, it’s fronting my behind—

Or is it backing up my front? It’s weakening my pride

That heads or tails I can’t make out, so coin flips must decide

Whether what’s aft is yet before, ahead or what’s astern,

Or I’m too turned around and backward-brained to ever learn

If what’s before my very eyes affronts my front or back;

Please, someone, sort it, or I think I’ll have a heart attack,

For hid behind this placid front, behind the back of me,

Yet also forward of my back, where, sadly, I can’t see,

This sad conundrum irritates and pesters me, alack,

For I’ve no way to know what’s going on behind my back.

Signs of Things to Come

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I’m so far from being clairvoyant that one could hardly accuse me of even knowing what’s happening right in front of me. I’m not even all that hot at figuring out my own history, let alone any that’s larger than me or mine. I’m just plain not very observant.

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Even familiar places can lead me astray.

I do have an interested and curious eye for colorful details, don’t get me wrong. Mostly, I’m intrigued by the arcane and eccentric, so it’s inherently unlikely that what catches my attention is useful, meaningful or significant. The reality of my frivolous and shallow frame of mind is that it is easily filled up with trivia and obscure oddities.

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If you walk a mile in *my* shoes, you just might get really, really lost.

So forgive me if I’m clueless about what is in my future, or anyone else’s. I can barely find my way from one end of my own house to the other without a map, and I sure as heck don’t have better skills for figuring out how to get from one point in my own history to the next, let alone the history of the larger world. Great reason for me to avoid messing around in history and just enjoy the smaller victories over my little reality. I mean, here I am in the den and I found my way here from the garage when we got home. And I enjoyed all sorts of details along the way, signs and all. See you around!