In The Windmills Of Your Mind

Like a circle in a spiral

Like a wheel within a wheel

Never ending or beginning

On an ever-spinning reel

As the images unwind

Like the circles that you find

In the windmills of your mind.

Even though this photo looks much like the windmill on our farm, it is not. Even though it does have a volunteer tree growing up inside the windmill tower just like the one on our farm, it is not. The last time I was past our old farm the windmill still stood with a few blades broken off but not with the blades cascading as they are in this photo.

I can't remember where or when I took this photo - probably sometime in the 70's. "Where or when" reminds me of the Rodgers and Hart song and this verse from that 1937 hit fit perfectly.

"When you're awake, the things you think

Come from the dreams you dream

Thought has wings

And lots of things

Are seldom what they seem

Sometimes you think you've lived before

All that you live today

Things you do

Come back to you

As though they knew the way

Oh! the tricks your mind can play!"