Life is not merely puzzling.Life is a puzzle

 

It is beyond puzzling.

It is certainly more than a puzzle.

One can only wish it was just a puzzle.

 

Life is more like a scroll,

yet more than a scroll.

Like an endless scroll,

with the “now” of our lives,

laid out flat between the rolls.

 

The scrolls of our lives,

are entangled with---

----complicated by---

---and supported from,

the scrolls of others in our lives

 

Trapped,

sometimes in the rolls,

we wither,

cryptic pieces spilling out on the other side,

waiting to be sorted.

 

Our past, rolls-up behind us,

whether the pieces fit or not.

Life is a puzzleLife scrolls,

as a river flows,

when the pieces fit a lot.

 

The rolled up pieces of our past,

like cast away carpet,

are needed less than we fear.

So give away the pieces that you can,

making room for more.

 

Any piece that we withhold,

and keep as if our own,

might be the one,

for which someone longs.


We can never know,

how pieces given away,

can be useful to the puzzle,

of someone else.

 

Can you imagine if,

for want of just one piece,

a person didn’t win,

the Nobel Prize for puzzles?

Or for Medicine?

Seems like such a heavy price.

 

What if you take that one piece---

---with you when you go?


Will you have enough time---

---to give them all away?

 

 

 

Charles Buell, Real Estate Inspections in Seattle

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7 Comments on What if you take that one piece with you when you go?

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Inspiring thoughts, thanks for posting this!
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Wow Charles - this is one to ponder! I love the way you write.
9:08am • #2
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Charles -- not only are the words very inspiring and thought provoking, the texture of images are wondrous as well!
9:54am • #3
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Charlie,

 Very nice Thursday morning pondering. Nice use of the photo also!
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Mike, thanks---and you are welcome

Nancy, thanks for your kind words

Steven, gotta love the trees of the NW :)

Don, thanks bud
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Great thoughts there Charlie.  More than a Shadow would come up with, for sure.

I will have to think this one through!

So, your photos - am I looking up then down, or down then up? 

Or, to put it another way, is the mirror on the bottom or the top?
5:41pm • #6
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Jay, the correct photo is the one on the bottom--top one is upside down and inside out :)
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