Ahhh, I get to be here precisely at the right time to see your marvellous words and pictures right at the start! This wonderful post is especially important to me right now Bob, as I'm finally (finally!) getting professional help in my search for what is already there. Just look at how clearly and obviously the grand prize sits there. And how hard it is to see it if for so long one is blinkered and obscured by all the muck that muddies up our vision. Yet throught those innocent childlike eyes we can see that it was always there. So bright, so pretty, so easy to claim. As soon as we're ready.
In my profile that I updated several weeks ago I wrote the following:
"At the break of day, despite the wrinkles and liver spots on my face, I am still willing to risk curiosity, wonder, and spontaneous delight in the splendors of the earth and my fellow earth travelers. Communion with fellow travelers have revealed that deep within this body, there is something valuable, worth listening to, and worthy of their trust."
Reflecting on this idea this morning I realized that many times we discover that which is within us is validated by the true friends we meet along our life course.
Yes, Carolyn, it was always within...just waiting for you to discover. I am so happy that you now realize you have been given a gift....a wonderful gift of self expression and are now willing to "risk all and jump off the cliff" and let your words flow. I would love to go to Border's one day and see on a display an ad for the latest best seller by our own Carolyn Madden!
ah, perfect Bob. You really are a child of light and wonder...and so perfect for your job, the one that keeps you young in mind and spirit and body, for all time.
Your article is Featured in Wednesday Writing Essentials.
Thank you Danielle for listening to my thoughts this early in the morn. I know of many people, people like myself, who are still wandering and yet within themselves, they hold the key to that which they were seeking.
Thank you Kathryn....and now there's no time for reflections, I need to make haste...faculty meeting starts in four minutes and I need to travel 3 miles to get there. Once again, Gather has made me late.
We ordered Chinese takeout last night and my fortune said "You will find your fortune. Just open your eyes." Children seem to know that instinctively. You are a good egg for reminding us.
A joy to read first thing in the morning. I liked your comment even better, because that is something I have noticed myself over the years.
QUOTE: Reflecting on this idea this morning I realized that many times we discover that which is within us is validated by the true friends we meet along our life course. UNQUOTE
I would add to that - that sometimes the unexpected or hurtful remark of a stranger or even a person who bears no good will towards us - provides sudden clarity and shifts our course in life. ...and thank you again about the wonderful comment you left on my article about the Hawk that sat on my chair this morning!
Would that I could thank each one of you personally for stopping by my musings on an early Wednesday morn. I find myself smiling...sometimes it's difficult looking Within and finding that which was there all the time. Sometimes we are caught up with daily living...and forget the muse inside us. I often think about Thoreau going out to Walden Pond so that "he could live life more deliberately". Maybe we all need to find our own Walden Pond.
I used these pictures deliberately. Most of the time we look "Without" for something...someone to make us whole....but is that not looking for a plastic egg....a sorry copy of the real thing. Walmart offers material "stuff"....and yet that is Not what feeds our soul. Rather, we should find the time to look Within....that which is valuable and can provide real nourishment was waiting for us all the time.
I really loved the way you phrased this poem of anamnesis, Elizabeth. One indeed doesn't have to go to Tibet to be enlightened, after all. And look at one of the greatest American short story writers, Eudora Welty, who never moved once in her life, and rarely traveled far from the house he was born in and lived in until her death; she didn't need reams of exotic experiences to find the words to create marvelous characters.
Everything we need is already inside us: I love this idea, and the way you expressed it with these pictures as well.
Bob, I was just joking. I think our society is much too hedonistic and not enough is done in our schools to help students appreciate the beauty of nature. We should have a National holiday simply called 'Nature Day' to increas nature awareness in children and adults.
You seemed to have touched many souls with your words of wisdom, Bob.
How true that life should be lived as though through the eyes of a child. Each new day brings another wonder to unfold and delight in. We adults do lose sight of all that in the day -to-day shuffle we often find ourselves doing.
Linda...that creative spirit just has a mind of it's own. I try at times to pen it up...thinking I want to write an article about such and such...then all of a sudden the spirit is going off in a whole different direction.
Bobbi...we do lose sight of it in the day to day shuffle of things...but I think I'm more aware of innocence and the joy of being cause I hang out with wee ones five days a week.
John...I WOULD love to go to Tibet and walk around Llasa and turn the prayer wheel...and chant that which would come out of my mouth. I do believe I would find myself with the monks protesting the Chinese occupation and be tarred and feathered.
Thanks Jennifer N. for stopping by. Would that we all could find the child within us and just create without caring what others thought...or for that matter, what our inner critic was saying.
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In my profile that I updated several weeks ago I wrote the following:
"At the break of day, despite the wrinkles and liver spots on my face, I am still willing to risk curiosity, wonder, and spontaneous delight in the splendors of the earth and my fellow earth travelers. Communion with fellow travelers have revealed that deep within this body, there is something valuable, worth listening to, and worthy of their trust."
Reflecting on this idea this morning I realized that many times we discover that which is within us is validated by the true friends we meet along our life course.
Your article is Featured in Wednesday Writing Essentials.
And in The Triple Name Club.
cheers,gayle
God Bless You
You make my day so often. :-)
QUOTE:
Reflecting on this idea this morning I realized that many times we discover that which is within us is validated by the true friends we meet along our life course.
UNQUOTE
I would add to that - that sometimes the unexpected or hurtful remark of a stranger or even a person who bears no good will towards us - provides sudden clarity and shifts our course in life.
...and thank you again about the wonderful comment you left on my article about the Hawk that sat on my chair this morning!
agree with the poem and you have inspired me to write an article.
On Point "E"
Blessings ~
Rene
Yet we would not berate
For an observation great
Of the gift that is innate
sweet... blessings...
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I used these pictures deliberately. Most of the time we look "Without" for something...someone to make us whole....but is that not looking for a plastic egg....a sorry copy of the real thing. Walmart offers material "stuff"....and yet that is Not what feeds our soul. Rather, we should find the time to look Within....that which is valuable and can provide real nourishment was waiting for us all the time.
Everything we need is already inside us: I love this idea, and the way you expressed it with these pictures as well.
Thanks John. Had to look up "anamnesis" but quite agree. I think you have been talking to magi.
Guyana, Jennifer, I bow to you.
Thanks for posting to All Photo Essays Here!
How true that life should be lived as though through the eyes of a child. Each new day brings another wonder to unfold and delight in. We adults do lose sight of all that in the day -to-day shuffle we often find ourselves doing.