Vogue
Dictionary day again.  Merril’s finger fell on the word “vogue” this morning.  It really means current.  All the rage. 
It does seem weird to me that I am seeing stuff that was in vogue in the late 60’s in vogue again. (I am thinking of fashion).   I don’t know though that people want to hold on to something for 50 years knowing what goes around comes around.
I must admit vogue is not something I have been into.  When I am it is more by chance than design.
I see houses that are dated.  Like, “that is so 80’s.”  It makes me think that anything I build will be neutral so it is always in vogue.  Like I had a new kitchen built in a place a while back.  I do not think it matters when it is looked at, the colours are always in vogue and what is current can be added with accessories.
But that is just me.  It is not a law thing but an individual preference thing.  Some are right into the latest and that is ok as far as I am concerned, and some are like me, and I think that is ok too.
Any problem I do have relates to thoughts and ideas that may be in vogue but are contrary to what his known to be true.  Thoughts that are promoted without trial.  The acceptance of which lead to my discontent rather than content.
I did look up vogue online and had more success when I looked up the meaning of the word.  Before I went to meaning I was taken to Vogue magazine.
I did find it interesting to see what other questions were asked concerning vogue though.  Another word is seen as “fad.”  I can “dig” that.  Ok “dig” was in vogue at one time.  Over 50 years ago.
One of the questions asked was “Is vogue a word?”  All I can say is it better be as I have been using it like it was.  I guess being in the dictionary is a good sign.
That reminds me though. “If something is spelled incorrectly in the dictionary, how does anyone know?”
Anyway, vogue has come and gone.

I’m late this morning.  Our clocks are all over the place.  We pulled out power going away so the electric one is totally wrong until corrected.  The battery one has given up any desire to be right (time to change the battery.)  So I thought I was getting up at 4am and it was after five and we are out by six am.
But I am home now and writing what I wanted to write about.  It was a quote I read yesterday by Ernest Hemingway.  I have written about the subject before and did not know that he had said something that has become a popular quote on the subject.  It is from one of his books.  Someone asks another how they ended up bankrupt.  The reply was something like “gradually then suddenly.”
The reason I like that so much is I see it as the way life is.  Decisions I make may have no immediate sudden impact but when I pursue something gradually there comes a time when something happens suddenly.  What I do in the gradually impacts the suddenly. 
That can be the case for good and bad.  Even if I decide to do nothing the impact may seem minimal at the start but there comes a “suddenly” time.  Even if it is not my demise it can be a realization that all this time has gone by, and I have done nothing of value for myself or someone else.
By the same token if I have been using the gradual time to build something then when the “suddenly” time comes, I am ready and can use it to further what I am doing.
The big mistake for me is to make no use of the gradual time.  Often the gradual time is the time of preparation.  It may seem that day follows day without impact, but something is building.  I guess it is something like I say often.  Lots of small make a lot.
To me gradual time is lots of small seemingly inconsequential building blocks.  Then suddenly something is ready for use by myself and others when it is most needed.
The gradual times can seem to me to be a waste of time, but it never is.  Gradual building is still building. 

Well here we are house sitting on the Sunshine Coast.  I thought I had sept in and was thinking it was around six am.  Turned out that was because of the light in adjacent rooms.  I got up and looked at the clock.  It was 3am.  I went back to bed.  Half an hour later I was up again and getting ready for the day.
It has been nice to be on the sunshine coast but it could hardly be called a holiday.  We came up on the Friday but returned again on the Saturday to a do we were committed to.  We decided (at Merri’s suggestion) to return to our house early in the day so we could go straight from there to the afternoon event.
I was in charge of set up and pull down.  I was really glad for a number of helpers.  All went well and did not require an excessive amount of time.  It really was one of those things where if help is not forthcoming it can take hours to do.  But with plenty of help the church was all set up for the next day in close to two hours.
It was the Fun day.  A lot of people came and I would say families enjoyed themselves.  There were a number of organizations present.
Merril and I ran a Market.  We had suggested donations and they had been forthcoming.  We had plenty of good stuff for sale at $2.  We had a good two hours and sold over $70 worth of stuff and met some great people.
To me the set up and planning that went into the event was amazing.  It was good to hear from one person who attends many such events, that we did everything right and it could be expanded if we wanted.
After the event Merril and I took stuff we had brought to our home and then drove back to the Sunshine Coast.  It is rare Merril goes to bed before me but at the end of that day she did.
But here I am the next day, and the sun is still not up.  Habits.