Life Keeps Spinning, Even on Pause

An analogy for our times

It was the early 1990s when I learned about discs of the compact variety. Amazing. I could oscillate with the precise push of a button. Forward, backward, play, pause.

Not a new concept, but the way it paused intrigued me. Frozen, the disc still spun. An amazing paradox: all life in sound, frozen in time, while the disc kept spinning. Paused, yet persistent.

This paradox has found me again in our collective, global crisis. The world, frozen, but still revolving. Everything, paused, yet persisting.

Dining, office work, celebrations — all paused. But hope is not paused, it persists. And when life spins again, I hope it finds us grateful. For there is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.

And when you spin past this pause, I hope you do it with gratitude.