Trend: The general direction in which something tends to moves.

I have been thinking lately about trends. We hear it all the time.
What is the trend in the Market?
The current trends in fashion.
Am I being too trendy???
We all want to be on the cutting edge. To know what is "in" and what is "out". The lines are always shifting and pulling us into the future.
Even if the trend is "Retro" it still forces us to look at the past and realize the distance we have traveled. Even if you feel that you have not changed much in the last decade or so you have.
Gravity takes it's toll.

"The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. Little we see in nature that is ours."

These words were written long ago and mean more to me each passing day.


I was chatting with my cousin and he is in his eighties. He was talking about shrinking in height, around 2 inches, just by getting older. Maybe the weight of the world does take it's toll on us. We wake up and we have shrunk. Nothing to do but watch.
In mid life we have this fantasy that we have things under control. Life is strolling along and it is just everyday things. Then all of a sudden...Bam...something happens to jolt us into the realization that all is not as it seems.
Some event either external or internal changes our perception. Sometimes, knocking us to the ground. We have been struck with how different life is than what we thought it would be.
Time and again I hear people who are older talk in amazement that they feel like the same person they were when they were young and shocked to look in the mirror and have changed so much.
There is something internally that never changes ..some constant that is always there...and yet..and yet.. I have seen disease snatch a soul. The person who was there is gone.
Trauma, disease, yes, it can change a person into something that they never dreamed of being. Even then, I feel compassion. I realize that whatever it was, damaged the personality but never the soul. The soul is there, hidden like a seed in the ground. It is best not to disturb it.

So, as we start this new decade ..what trend are you following? Where are you looking for guidance in this crazy world?
A trend to me is like a well worn path..Will you go out and make a path of your own..create a new "trend" in your own life?
I hope wherever you tend to go...It leads you to greater love & understanding of your unique role of the trends that are forming before us.