Clouds

I like that today the clouds in the sky are blue and white. I like that they’re quiet. I like that the blue in the sky is pale. There is an occasional bird song. The trees below the skies are filled with green leaves for this spring day. I often make reference to sunny days in May. I will say things like, “life can’t always be a sunny day in May.” At this moment in my life it is actually a sunny day in May. My emotions come and go and I get to come back to what is present in this moment.

What is present is that I am breathing. Our clouds. Our pale blue skies on our planet against the dark night of space. Present.

Coming Back

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I found that when I was without a place, like you walk into a house or an apartment or a room, you say, “This is my place,” I compartmentalized everything into a pause button except staying safe and alive. I am gradually coming out of that place. I don’t quite remember how I found out that Kamala Harris was the Democratic Nominee for president.

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This Love

I don’t know that I have experienced what Reverend Mitchell talks about toward the last third of his video, a taste of universal love. I have spent a lot of time in what I call survival mode, and I don’t have judgement about my being there, where I had compartmentalized everything else and honed in on doing ‘the next survival thing.’

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