Time

"Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable.
What might have been is an abstraction
Remaining a perpetual possibility
Only in a world of speculation.
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.
Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose-garden. My words echo
Thus, in your mind.
                              But to what purpose
Disturbing the dust on a bowl of rose-leaves
I do not know."

T.S. Eliot - Burnt Norton (from the Four Quartets)

A busy Saturday, much of it spent with my Dad, trying to understand his finances.  At 84 he has reached the stage where we need to start thinking about what may happen at some stage in the future (hopefully many, many  years hence) and a little help and planning is now required.  Not the most joyful of thoughts.  But a good thing to do, and it is great to be able to spend the time with him.

I come back to Eliot's Four Quartets a lot.  I first read it in the sixth form undertaking an English A level and have revisited it regularly ever since.  The longer I live the more it speaks to me.  I love that line Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage which we did not take, towards the door we never opened.

Now, its time for Cathy and I to sit down with out box set of the Killing III - we've been saving it up.  Sarah Lund and her Skandi jumper await ... ;-)

P.S.  I've just noticed that the Polaroid branding has gone :-))  We are getting there - full marks to the fab four.