The Winds Have Shifted

    

     The winds have shifted to the north so my morning writing is much noisier now, with airplanes leaving the runway via our apartment route instead of coming in via that route.  My husband tells me it is because it is easier for the planes to take off into the wind, I don’t know, I have never understood how planes work anyway though he has tried many times to explain it to me.  My mind is just not wired that way.  As the planes pass by I wonder where all those people are going.  What adventure awaits them at their destination, are they visiting families, on business, or “getting away” as Southwest puts it so well.  It saddens me that the generation now and future ones will not have the pleasure or the thrill of seeing their family members when they come off of the plane.  We are now subjected to waiting at the baggage claim, as if we are claiming our family, or waiting for the phone call in the cell phone waiting lot.  I do realize the tribe made this decision to step up security after 911 and other incidents to make us more secure, but at what cost?  And has it really made us so much more secure?  I admit it has made more jobs for people, new products, new ways to keep others out.  Alas, I do not want to go off on a tangent on how the money could be better spent on education, feeding those in need and all the other great causes there are out there to spend time and money on.  I have always lived in a bubble.  My life has been fairly easy, I have made my own dramas, and continue to do so, but they are small dramas compared to others I have seen or heard about.  There have been some scary situations where my life could have ended, but did not.  I used to question why I was so lucky, so blessed, but I do not anymore.  I let the question go.  I just appreciate the fact that I am here, wherever here is, knowing my time will come when I will no longer be in this space; be it this apartment, this state, this body and try to remember in my “drama” times that I can breathe, that I can see, smell, hear, listen.  The winds have shifted again.