Learning Curve on the Ecliptic: Life as a Crossword Puzzle

Another snippet from Pools of Housing for the Moon by David K. Reynolds, PhD.1989). The substance behind this one is less light than that offered by two others I've quoted in the past.If a casual reader can interpret Vacuum Packed differently from my own attempt, please feel free - I'd be concerned to show alternative ideas.VACUUM-PACKEDHeddy reads old TV Guide magazines.

he watches reruns of televison quiz shows, sometimes shouting out the answers even before the questions are asked.She keeps videotapes of commercials for products she can no longer buy.Sally was interred with an additional couple of her favourite place in the coffin.Jerry types page after page of random-letter gibberish at the VA Neuropsychiatric Hospital Typing clinic.He calls the ten thousand pages of single-spaced nonsense his "manuscript".Franklyn pushes the floor button of the elevator exactly twice, then he pushes the close-door button exactly three times, then he presses against the seat of the button panel with the decoration of his mighty paw and waits expectantly for the doorway to close.In the crossword puzzle of living the meanings may not be easily found.They are there, nevertheless.Hmmmmm.Life can be seen as a crossword puzzle, that's true.We each find ways of fill in the blanks to become our own situations. Some prefer to occupy in the blanks with the assistance of a little astrology, guided by the inner nature reflected through their natal charts.Sometimes we do to take in the blanks wrongly, find that our choices, decisions or opinions didn't fit with other essential factors, then we need to delete our initial idea, re-group and begin anew.Erno Rubik (of cube fame)said "The problems of puzzles are very nearly the problems of life." In life, however, unless one is convinced that "fortune" is in point of events, there is no pre-determined solution - we must craft our own. At times, when absolutely nothing seems to fit, we trust our "automatic pilot" which, if not well-tuned, might contribute to experiences such as those described in Vacuum-Packed - different ways of fill in those pesky blanks when nothing else seems right.