Momenteous Events

Yesterday Merril and I were in a shopping Centre for a couple of hours.  We had lunch and then coffee with a mate.  As we were leaving, we looked out and Merril said, “it has been raining.”  It had and we had no idea it had.
What surprised though was it had really been raining.  There was water in a nearby creek that mostly show no sign of water.  When we got home the soil was such that we could seen it had flowed at our place and there were puddles in places where they form in heavy consistent rain.
I looked at the gauge and it showed we had had 20mm or so. The thing is we had not even known it was raining.  A friend who works in landscaping said he was just about finished a job when the heavens opened and he thought, “that is hard rain.”  It turned out to be hail.
The point for me was I seem to be in times of momentous events.  Such things have happened for sure throughout history, but it seems to me they are happening with more regularity.  A friend said, “do you think it is more, or we just see more because of video phones?”  My feeling is it is both.
To me it is like I am gaining momentum going down a hill.  It seems to be one thing after another right now – both good and bad.
Someone I worked with and was an everyday nice person was killed by a stolen car.  That sort of thing always happened but always happened to people I never knew.  Fires, floods, earthquakes and human made disasters in places near to home and places of affluence are becoming so regular I wonder what the leading news story will be every night.
And good things are happening with unprecedented regularity.  I was recently involved in an event where someone who choses their words carefully said, “that just doesn’t happen.”
I think for me to be in denial would be a mistake.  If what I think is happening is happening, then my next question is “why?”