No storm lasts forever? True! But I live in the storms I experience. I often don't want them to end. I know I can grow stronger within each one. At my ripe old age, I am aware that storms are to be welcomed. Only if I fail to learn from or grow within one, dare I welcome its end. But never with impatience! Always trying to delay their departure if I fail to profit from one, I remain optimistic that I will sooner or later. This is a relatively new attitude. For the majority of my years, I have severely suffered during the troubled days of my life. Only lately have I become more understanding of the fact that life is hard, period. Learn to enjoy it!
I am a naive dreamer. Looking for understanding. For mine of myself and of others and for others' of me. Occasionally the former, seldom the latter! I surprise my loved ones. Yet I know that I am judgemental. I try to reduce or eliminate that response when I am aware of it. It's so automatic I often don't recognize it until I've dwelt in it for a while. Too bad! I feel like I've earned the privilege.
The california ocean and sand miss you and your family! Hope you stay warm in the arctic. Also, the comment your daughter made about what makes one rich was priceless with zero shock.
Nessa, as always, your words are food for my soul. I am particularly aware of your choices in phrases and your so vivid word pictures. I love and admire them. I wish I could do as well. I write from the mind, you write from the spirit. Big difference!
The photos are works of art. You are very talented. It was a good piece. Lot’s of new thoughts came to me after reading your words. The ability to feel renewed with each sunrise. A very powerful thought for putting away the past and being present. Thank you.
I enjoy the way you write on different strands of reflection and insight, often intertwined. It feels unconstrained and refreshing and I think mirrors the way many of experience our lives.
Thanks, Addie! I like that feedback. Unconstrained is such a good word. Just the ability to write stream of consciousness without masking or striving feels liberating. Thanks for this.
So much beauty in your posts, and a love for life. I suppose that's why seeing the "dehumanization fragmentation trance" is extra painful. But scratch just below the surface and there's a whole universe of richness there....this shell covering our true selves seems to be dissolving day by day.
There is a love for life, right? Sometimes it is elusive and hard to access and I am going easy on myself for even that. The core of it all is love. True blue authentic unconditional love. Darn it, it must be all that Rumi brainwashing. Can't wait for our zoom chat soon :)
No storm lasts forever? True! But I live in the storms I experience. I often don't want them to end. I know I can grow stronger within each one. At my ripe old age, I am aware that storms are to be welcomed. Only if I fail to learn from or grow within one, dare I welcome its end. But never with impatience! Always trying to delay their departure if I fail to profit from one, I remain optimistic that I will sooner or later. This is a relatively new attitude. For the majority of my years, I have severely suffered during the troubled days of my life. Only lately have I become more understanding of the fact that life is hard, period. Learn to enjoy it!
I am a naive dreamer. Looking for understanding. For mine of myself and of others and for others' of me. Occasionally the former, seldom the latter! I surprise my loved ones. Yet I know that I am judgemental. I try to reduce or eliminate that response when I am aware of it. It's so automatic I often don't recognize it until I've dwelt in it for a while. Too bad! I feel like I've earned the privilege.
It sounds like your 95 years of walking this earth brings gifts of wisdom and insight!
A calming read, soothing for my nervous system with the pictures a big help for that - thank you
Love the pics of "sand neurons." I love making those on purpose whenever I have a chance to play on a beach.
The california ocean and sand miss you and your family! Hope you stay warm in the arctic. Also, the comment your daughter made about what makes one rich was priceless with zero shock.
Nessa, as always, your words are food for my soul. I am particularly aware of your choices in phrases and your so vivid word pictures. I love and admire them. I wish I could do as well. I write from the mind, you write from the spirit. Big difference!
The photos are works of art. You are very talented. It was a good piece. Lot’s of new thoughts came to me after reading your words. The ability to feel renewed with each sunrise. A very powerful thought for putting away the past and being present. Thank you.
“Begin again.” The hope of each new sunrise, each new breath. Thanks for your beautiful writing.
I enjoy the way you write on different strands of reflection and insight, often intertwined. It feels unconstrained and refreshing and I think mirrors the way many of experience our lives.
Thanks, Addie! I like that feedback. Unconstrained is such a good word. Just the ability to write stream of consciousness without masking or striving feels liberating. Thanks for this.
So much beauty in your posts, and a love for life. I suppose that's why seeing the "dehumanization fragmentation trance" is extra painful. But scratch just below the surface and there's a whole universe of richness there....this shell covering our true selves seems to be dissolving day by day.
There is a love for life, right? Sometimes it is elusive and hard to access and I am going easy on myself for even that. The core of it all is love. True blue authentic unconditional love. Darn it, it must be all that Rumi brainwashing. Can't wait for our zoom chat soon :)