To Shoot An Arrow

There's the old saying, "I shot an arrow into the air, and where it lands, I know not where."

Well, I'm beginning to think maybe we're all arrows, flying through the air, our life paths like an arrow's trajectory, sometimes they hit their bullseye...some just miss the bullseye...some never hit the target at all...and some, well, just misfire....
Sometimes I think that I'm in the 'just missed' category. When you think of all the people who have existed on Earth for thousands of years...all these arrows...who had to endure all of the conditions that would probably scare us today, even if we were hunkered in the relative safety of an RV, the conditions they lived in is astonishing and yet they survived. Arrows, all of them, and even back then, they hit and missed...The one's who hit a bullseye left a mark in history, one way or another...
But then again, maybe 'Arrow' is not the right metaphor for anyone's life path. Because paths can change, sometimes in an instant intervention of fate, either good or bad. And what is 'fate' or 'destiny' really? A notion that everything is pre-ordained maybe? Well that doesn't really make sense. But I understand the notion of fate, most of which is in our own hands, we can control our own destinies to a certain point, and then fate intervenes, if that makes sense...
I remember reading a story from a Herb Caen column about a family who lived in San Rafael, and they moved to San Francisco. They brought their cat with them, but soon after she disappeared, ran away...
Two weeks later she was found back at their old house in Marin...all she wanted to do was go back to the home she knew.
A woman in a car, crossing the Golden Gate Bridge during a windy and rainy night spotted a cat making her way along the bridge, stopping post to post, the poor thing was cold and drenched...
The poor kitty...her fate was to cross that bridge, but her destiny was to end up back in San Francisco...her arrow flew, but changed course.
Right now I can relate to that cat on the bridge, just trying to go back...trying to avoid any pre-ordained destinies, trying to avert the trajectory of her 'arrow'.

The Time Tunnel

This is a follow-up to a previous blog, 'my time machine'....Remember the tv show from the 60's, The Time Tunnel? It was one of my favorite shows when I was a kid. Two scientists invented a time machine, The Time Tunnel, and they ended up trapped in time. Each week they would tumble through time to a new adventure, while the scientists at the Tunnel entrance would try in vain to get them back. After two seasons, the show ended and they never did get back home.
I decided to write a short story on fanfiction.com...
Other than creative writing assignments in school, I've never written a fictional story before, but I had a blast doing it! It's here, I hope you enjoy it...that is, if you do read it, ha!
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5466482/1/The_Convergence

Illustration Friday - Music

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Originally uploaded by danguerra444

This was an attempt at pointillism, using black, yellow, orange, and red felt pens.