This fenceposts looks like a staff that a mighty magicuser would weild. Full of potential and at the ready. I’ve been pondering this photo for awhile. I’m drawn to its imperfections. It’s like a dream. Trying to focus on an idea that’s not quite there, not quite realized but within a larget context. Reaching for the stars but having an unclear quest ahead. This is the journey.
How is your journey today?
High clouds moved in just before sunrise to beautifully frame this shot today.
Even under a full moon the stars are shining. No surprise there. More plane trails in and out of DIA Sunday Nov 29.
Om means different things to different people. Atman, the interior spirit, soul, ultimate reality, truth. No matter how you slice its meaning the uttering is holy. It touches on the sacred like a sunrise.
This sign was found in Missouri; a random encounter along a country road.
Are you on the lookout for a brush with the sacred in your life? During this season?
We passed this sign during at night, during rainstorm. We zoomed right past it and the thought of taking a picture of it just would not let go. We had been talking about driving back through this backroad on the way home during the daylight so we could enjoy more of the landscape. So we planned the route back. I reflected on what such a picture meant to me. Om means different things to different people. For some it’s just a sound but I think it gets at something deeper; deeper soul, deeper spirit, deeper reality. It’s that simple thought and sound that opens the reality of the Universe wide open if you sit with it.
If we could look through a crystal ball and everything were laid out plain to see im not sure we’d be that excited. Most times, we can set the mood of the day. We can set the tone to meet the task. Today, choose how to approach the day.
What draws me most to this picture is the rich fall colors that show behind the lensball. We set the mood and tone of our life but I doubt we’d be so present with that action if we knew all the things that will happen and in their order. Each day we get to choose, a good tone or down tone. And I know we respond to that metacognition. If I believe and strive for the good day and set the tone so all can feel it then I cannot fail. All those external things have no effect.
The Sun hit the horizon again from our vantage this morning. It has been rising over Crescent Mountain for about a month now. It now has a clear shot to the winter solstice.
The road will be bumpy but it smooths out. Do you feel it? It’s time to get creating.
I like watching changes in nature. Where the Sun will rise, the seasons, the differences in the skies. It helps me remember that time flows and I don’t have unlimited time. I need to keep creating.
#mindfulness #nature #metta #creativity
My mind is abuzz this morning with paths. I have to believe everything will turn out perfect and beautiful. Life will unfold as it unfolds. I’ve done my part and it does me no good to fret any more than I can change the paths of the stars, the plains or the birds in the air. I can wonder at their curvy journeys but I have just two feet on my own path and I should focus my heart there.
Are your feet and heart in agreement today?
I’m drawn to paths. Where do they lead. How would my life change to follow this or that path. It’s not that I want more choice but I like imagining that I have lots of choices. I just remember that my feet and my heart really need to be going the same direction for me to be happy. A huge metta.
#metta #mindfulness #affirmations
I watch these clouds like I watch my life. It’s beauty in chaos. These cloudy wisps are twisted, shaped by the unseen into something of purpose. You can see the unseen, feel the hand of the sculptor in these patterns.
Be quiet, disconnect from all the distractions for a moment today and feel that hand.
Meditation was on my mind when staring at these clouds. Trying to find stillness within while witnessing a bit of natural chaos on the outside.
#mindfulness #nature #meditation
The leaves are gone; blown away by the wind. I love the wind but sometimes I just want to sit quiet and enjoy the views without the chaos. It’s the way of the world and it’s up to us to create that quiet place inside. How will you handle your chaos today?
This was a meditative thought. That I’m like a stone sitting in a river or in a windstorm. I remain though I feel events move around me. My core values are solid.
#mindfulness #meditation
I don’t know if I’ll be this way again but I sure did enjoy the views.
Enjoy a view today.