Approximately 15 minutes ago I sat down in my chair to write this blog. My head felt like it was being “rocked” gently from side to side as I looked up from my phone (I write on my phone) and there in the reflection of my back door, was the window of my front door with a basket of flowers on it rocking back and forth. I turned around and looked at the actual door, but it appeared to be still. Then I looked back at the reflection and it was moving. My head was rocking in the same motion with it unless I looked away. Within minutes, the report of today’s earthquake on the east coast broke on TV. It then dawned on me that I just “watched” a ten second earthquake. If I hadn’t looked at the reflection in the door, I would’ve never seen or felt the movement.
This is the first time what actually wasn’t there, showed what was really happening and the real thing showed no sign of it.
Makes me wonder how many times what we actually witnessed in a situation was not was really what was happening at all. Makes one think we should maybe pay more attention to reflection. My writing instructor last week was musing on observing all the time like writers do, and she said most of the time the words being said, are not the words really being said. Hmmmm…..
And so, as another day goes by, it’s been an interesting one, and…I have written.
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