Another John Nash Moment

Another John Nash Moment.
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Sunday, December 14, 2008 at 10:00pm | Edit Note | Delete
You might have seen my remarks earlier about having trouble with all of the doors on my jeep because of the cold. This is where it starts.
The doors being frozen on the damn vehicle was certainly the central event of my day today. If anyone were to ask me how my day went, it would start with that story. The theme is thus set.
Jump forward a bit.
I made pancakes and sausages later in the day. When I tried to close the cupboard I'd gotten the pancake mix from, it wouldn't close.
The same thing then happened moments later with the utensils drawer.
Tonight, I was putting away a few groceries, and found that the fridge door wouldn't close properly. I wound up cleaning out the whole fridge in order to get it closed.
By this time it's of course occurring to me that doors are playing a significant role in my life today, and always easily influenced by suggestion, I idly thought maybe there was some message in it all for me. But again, not in any serious way, after all, it could all be coincidence.
Flash to right now. I'm done feeding and bathing the kids, cleaning the kitchen, all of that, and I'm hating winter. So I decided I would search out a nice profile pic full of sunshine in protest.
If you do a google image search for sunshine you get this
http://images.google.ca/images?hl=en&q=sunshine&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2
The ninth picture has a quote attached to it, and I like quotes, so this was the first image I clicked on it. It takes you here. http://milosjanusoutlook.blogspot.com/2008_05_01_archive.html
The site header talks about the Roman God of Doors and Gates, Janus, who is always seen as looking to the future and the past simultaneously. He symbolizes beginnings and endings as well as change and transition. His name is also the origin of the word January.
Anyway, now I'm convinced that all these door metaphors are trying to tell me something. I just don't know what.