Every reaction is a choice. I can choose to absorb everyone else’s stress, or I can choose to seek and find serenity. I choose not to absorb everyone else’s stress. I choose to be serene. I choose to exist in a state of relative detachment. Often, it’s easier said than done but it comes easier with practice. In time, I’m learning that I simply be a fly on the wall: observe, process, and release. I don’t have to carry any of it.
Blackstone Lake
There is such beautiful in observing life in action. There is peace in growth and cultivation.
I am working on growing and cultivating a friendship at the moment. If NOW is all that we have, we cannot dwell on the past, there is only the NOW in which we reside. From this knowledge, I am hoping to see a sprout of compassion and understanding develop, that may someday be a great and admirable plant.
I’ve spent most of the past week communing with nature, in its absolute beauty and perfection.
The Kawarthas – near Orono, ON
I’m not usually one for going to the theatre. I don’t value typical Hollywood movies enough to fork over the price of admission when I can simply wait for the DVD to be released. However, when a friend invited me to see Fierce Light in Vancouver last week, I jumped at the chance. Fierce Light (When Spirit Meets Action) – where spiritualism meets activism – is probably the best offering I have seen this far into 2009.
En route to Jericho Beach – Vancouver, BC
There is nothing more beautiful than light filtering from the heavens, through the trees. Beautiful and perfect in its simplicity; for a brief moment in time, anything else can be forgotten.
The Kawarthas, Ontario
The closest place to $DIETY[*] must be the closest place to nature.
[*] – Whatever you personally refer to as the supreme/ultimate being of the universe, should you believe in such a thing.
