Aspects of Being
I seem to go to strange places when I'm alone. Maybe they're not that strange. Maybe I'm not alone! Metaphors come to me. I think about things I've gone through. I remember lessons. I contemplate what is all around me. I feel Alive! I remember that no one is exempt from these exercises, unless they exclude themselves from Life. And yet many do. This Spring came early...not that it was much of a Winter to begin with. I was trimming the fruit tree...I also cared for my "free tree" which is a Manitoba Maple that the birds had "planted". (FREE is my favorite price, and we're encouraged nowadays to plant native species - maintaining genetic diversity - and no, I don't live in Manitoba, so go figure!) I think about all the trouble we go to, making Nature appear groomed and proper on our own wee plots of Suburbanite Land - we, the new Tribe. Like we are in charge. Oh yes, I think, we are in charge of certain things...but we never seem to be able to leave well enough alone. I reached to the tops of the branches on the Peach Tree to cut what would be too high to pick, should the profusion of blossoms go the distance, and also where branches had died. I thought about where we all try to leave our marks, growing this way and that... I was blinded by the Sun, and didn't mind at all! This is the season to rediscover the Light! That which gives us warmth, love, growth, fruition...Metaphors one might think. But all too real! Now, I thought, I don't mind the English Classes I 'suffered' through, even while they gave me respectable marks. I thought about trimming these branches that wanted life, reaching for the Light themselves. And here I was saying, "No, enough is enough. You will waste your effort". As if I was in charge. I found about a Bajillion Lady Bugs that were imported a short time back to fight one thing or another that we've found "unacceptable". I counted the Dandelions and lost the battle - another thing that was "imported" for the sake of our prosperity - seemed like a good idea at the time! I thought about this
Spring being early and how folks have already mowed their lawns on the
first "nice day", waiting...ready...to take on another season when we seem
to come alive, but eventually coming to begrudge the growth, for we must
keep it in check! I thought about why the Spring might be early, and that
Global weather changes are quite apparently happening - as "they" said
it would. How much longer can we remain complacent? And again, I looked
to the sky (a place of forever!) and imagined where we are in the middle
of nowhere. But I was listening to my favorite music that always takes
me "home", and I thought, "I didn't make this World, nor am I in charge.
I'll do what I can for the best..."
But perhaps I ought
first investigate what 'The Best' might be......
Now this morning is cloaked in grey |