Slow Golfers Crossing

Today was a less than productive day on the "way I'm currently earning my living" front.  The relative unproductiveness of the day can be directly tied to a degree of inflexibility in certain bureaucracies that I had not personally encountered in quite some time.  Be that as it may, suffice it to say that if you ever find yourself in being an employer, it probably is not in your enterprise's best interest to create obstacles in getting your employees to work.  I'll have spent over a day and a half trying to solve a relatively simple problem that probably could have been handled much more efficiently.

It's interesting because I believe that the universe is in general conspiring with us to help us be successful, and today was one of those days where it didn't really feel that way.  A friend of mind is fond of saying that the lesson will be repeated until it is learned.  While frustrating, today's activities MAY have been a not so subtle message that I may be engaged in the wrong kind of work.  It's a bit early to tell, but that notion bears careful consideration going forward.

Even though the day did not progress as hoped and expected it really was a good day.  During the first segment of walking that I finally got to much later in the day than I had planned, I stumbled across the following sign.

Another message from the universe?

Was the universe sending me another message?  If so, what was the key point?  I believe this may have been another message from the unimaginably powerful energy flows that all empirical evidence suggests are trying to help me along in my journey. 

The key in this sign is the caution or supplication to taking it slow.  It's interesting because it is clearly a message to machine driven non-pedestrian traffic.  My walking, and the golfers' progress may appear to be slow from the perspective of a vehicle, but I wonder if that perspective is whence we should be taking our cues.  Actually, I really don't wonder about that at all.  I've come to believe that life moving at the speed of a car is a life that is somehow a little more sterile than a live lived from the perspective of the pedestrian on foot.

I've walked quite a few miles over the last 11 months, and I've discovered things in places that I'd previously considered familiar that I wouldn't have observed nor experienced at vehicular speeds.  I'm sure I've even seen these things before, but without the plodding pace of the march, I was unable to truly observe them.  A little after seeing the sign in the picture above, I came across this vista.

YP Boat Basin at Naval Support Activity, Annapolis, MD

I've been past this location a number of times in a vehicle and even several times on foot at a jogging pace.  I'd never, until today, really observed the view.  Today I did see and had the time to observe.  It was a fantastic perspective for a number of reasons.  Principally for me, it allowed me to regain some serenity from the perceived troubles (some First World Problems).