A moment

Time has surely slipped away quickly since the last post, but not without me being conscious every day and night of its passing. But, having been caught up in several things that required absolute commitment to time, there was no way that I wanted to write anything even if I wanted to at the end of each very tiring day.  I do have to say, though, that in the back of my mind, I have always realized that I was indeed thinking of writing as soon as possible, as I have accumulated rather a number of things that I could go on about in some small detail, and that jumble of thoughts will make up the posts that follow.

Tonight, though, I will just offer that I was quite overwhelmed by the convention that I have just attended over four days, being there for almost every minute that it was open- with the exception of the third day, when I left four hours earlier- I just didn't want to deal with it much longer, and it was not due to lack of interest.  I had just reached a saturation point, I felt, although this did not manifest itself when I returned back home, when I immersed myself in even more research for the following day.

There was little time in which to actually breathe, to think about things.  True that I was entirely in the now, so to speak, but that being so present was not really the kind of mind state that is ideal.

What follows is the image I took when I stepped out to take a breather, and it was breathtaking- five minutes of silence before I plunged back into the craziness.