“Having it all” when I was young meant having a six figure income and nine figures of networth. But one doesn’t need to look far to see people who have attained those things certainly do not have it all.

With age and time I am settling in to appreciate simpler things, more meaningful things, like relationships, and my all important time in the “laboratory.” The laboratory has become a euphemism for my astrological studies which have suddenly shifted gears. Maybe it’s due to the time spent and invested in the laboratory, or maybe it’s due to the process that, like fine tea, only needed to steep.

As Kingfishers Catch Fire

BY GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS

As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame; 

As tumbled over rim in roundy wells 

Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell’s 

Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name; 

Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: 

Deals out that being indoors each one dwells; 

Selves — goes itself; myself it speaks and spells, 

Crying Whát I dó is me: for that I came.

I say móre: the just man justices; 

Keeps grace: thát keeps all his goings graces; 

Acts in God’s eye what in God’s eye he is — 

Chríst — for Christ plays in ten thousand places, 

Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his 

To the Father through the features of men’s faces.

“Having it all” now means having knowledge about TIME and people, so that I can better understand them. Especially family and close relationships, so that perhaps with a little understanding I will help them feel understood, and in some small way make their life better.

“Having it all,” then, is learning ways to help others make life better. This aspiration is in fact not only achievable, it is happening as we speak!

HVA

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