Dominoes

Sometimes it seems so straightforward, as the days fall down one after another like a line of slow dominoes, each toppled by the one before as it falls. It is easy to look back and be surprised by how much of the year has already gone, when it seems like it was only yesterday that it was cold and dark as the old year fell away and you turned your hopes towards what this new summer would bring. Now that summer is fading too, another part of the line of dominoes that has fallen while you look around trying to find any trace of what you promised yourself and what you hoped for.

Soon you know that, before you even realise it, it will be the cold dark days of winter once again and you will go back to sit by the flickering fire to stand up all your dominoes of days for the coming year once again. This time though, you know it will be the year when they fall in a new way. A new pattern that will open up this world to you in a way it never has before, as though the falling dominoes are some sort of key that will open the door of your year into a new life that you can step into with the realisation that this was what you have been longing for, for so long.