Learning Curve on the Ecliptic: Life as a Crossword Puzzle

Another snippet from Pools of Lodging for the Moon by David K. Reynolds, PhD.1989). The meaning behind this one is less clear than that offered by two others I've quoted in the past.If a daily reader can interpret Vacuum Packed differently from my own attempt, please feel free - I'd be interested to establish 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 buried with an extra pair of her favorite 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 place of the button panel with the palm of his right paw and waits expectantly for the door to close.In the crossword puzzle of life 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 filling in the blanks to get our own situations. Some choose to take in the blanks with the aid of a little astrology, guided by the internal nature reflected through their natal charts.Sometimes we do to make in the blanks wrongly, find that our choices, decisions or opinions didn't fit with other essential factors, then we want to cancel our initial idea, re-group and start anew.Erno Rubik (of cube fame)said "The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life." In life, however, unless one is confident that "lot" is in place 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 lead to experiences such as those described in Vacuum-Packed - different ways of filling in those pesky blanks when nothing else seems right.