Tripping Over a Rainbow

Yesterday UPS delivered the new business cards I ordered online. I'd been looking forward to their arrival all week with eager anticipation. These are my new, snazzy, Science Fiction for Thinkers.com business cards in full color that replace the old michaelcasher.com business cards that I now use for writing grocery lists on the back of and for marking pages in books.

It hadn't rained around here for weeks but it managed to rain for only two minutes after the UPS driver set the little box of new business cards on the wooden bench outside my kitchen door. When I spotted the box there I picked it up and noticed that it was wet.

The cards look beautiful and classy but the sudden rain storm from seemingly out of nowhere will always haunt me.

Looking Over My Shoulder

I don't do it as much as I used to but, every now and then, I still find myself looking over my shoulder to see who or what might be following me.

It could be some cobweb from the past, maybe, that I didn't quite clear away completely and that's been on my back all along, trying its best to turn into a monkey that will one day ride me down and break me. Or someone from my past, a long time persona non grata who either doesn't know it or damn well knows it but who is determined to take me down one day, mostly out of spite. Or a true enemy — and I have made many — who wants to take me out of the game altogether. Sometimes I think it's just an ill wind, pretending to be the lucky wind at my back, hoping I will not know the difference.

I'm certainly glad I don't look over my shoulder all that much anymore. Looking ahead is a lot more fun. And you don't get that nasty crick in your neck from trying to see the world around you through hindsight.