This morning, so many
thoughts could have crowded my brain: I was watching the Geminid meteors last
night, after a very long work day completing projects, and I had to get up very
early, so - the laws of mathematics cannot be conned - I was sleepy; was I
going to make my Amtrak connection, four hours away?; the twisty mountain
passes would be two hours of possibly icy conditions in the below-freezing
temps.
And none of these thoughts
had more than a fleeting hold on my mind.
Why?
The beauty I was driving
through just stunned me. The ground was frosty, the fence posts
ditto. But the trees, the glorious trees, completely limned in white.
Frost - the dew freezing on each bare branch - covering each inch, made
particularly spooky and arresting by the on and off banks of heavy ground
fog. You drove through the heavy bank and suddenly emerged into a scene
of wonder: meadows, some with sheep, goats and cattle grazing, others of empty
whiteness; scattered open forest with light, wispy fog.
Some beauty is human
created. I promote creation among my
clients partially for the health and wellness of the body doing it, and partly
for the deep soul enjoyment. And then
there is the beauty that owes nothing at all to human agency, that is purely
and simply a gift of the cosmos (God/karma/etc.).
It’s so important to
notice these gifts, to allow them to soak into your heart and soul, to revel in
them and to allow gratitude to bubble up to the surface of our minds. There are so many undeserved gifts for us
every day.
Mindfulness trains us to
notice more, to be aware of more of our world.
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