Aspects of Being
Greetings good folks! This week's note will be a bit different. Because this week really is different - for me in any case. We share so much here at The Tree, always written as food for thought, provocative and insightful, and chock full of the many voices that express a need for contemplation and digestion, as well as an appreciation of our complex diversity - even as we are all one. On this trip, we need all the help we can get, as well as give! Look inside you, look outside... Questions as well as answers await us. It is as it should be. Through our trials we can feel very much alone, yet in sharing we find that we are not! - As well as that like minds and spirits exist, found now through the amplification of the Internet. It's in these moments that it truly does feel as if 'all is meant to be' when we look at the Big Picture. We experience moments of awakening in increments small and stupendous, yet the trick is to keep one's mind and heart open through it all. We can all find ourselves struggling from time to time with this feat, yet whether undertaken as an individual or as a culture, it truly is the noblest endeavour... This weekend I will be making a journey. I will be meeting with kindreds, with others who share my love of this journey, and who have Music in common, like the heartbeat within us. I'm going to meet my favorite band of this lifetime who have guided, rescued, encouraged, enlightened, and comforted me - as well as given me the inclination to carry on with what I do, in darkness or in light, for 27 years. Should I call them Heroes? Saviors? Perhaps - but perhaps not. I have taken what they gave me and incorporated it into my own life as a beacon. I think of them as brothers more than anything else.... I have few "dreams" for I have often had little recourse but to be in the moment, gleaning what I could (and precious it was indeed!), and having learned that there usually are no 'guarantees' but those which we might promise ourselves in a day. And despite common and ready objection on the grounds of sustaining Optimism, we really only can live in the moment! Will it be a revelation, this trip? I only know that I will have much food for thought upon returning, no matter what. Will they still be 'heroes' afterwards? All I know is that kindreds have helped me much on my own journey, and that gratefulness is not so much an end as it is a means to carry on. Will they still be my brothers? YES!
~ High vibrations go on... to the sun, oh let my heart dreaming... past a mortal as me, where can I be? Like the time I ran away, and turned around, and you were standing close to me......
Beacons ~
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