moments

a pigeon-toed Crow ambles straight up the road following the same path of humans and four-leggeds who run, meander, saunter most hours of the day.

we watch the full Moon’s upper crest slowly sink into the Cloudcover over the Olympic Mountains.

a small flourish and shift of the Cloudbank afford a slightly greater glimpse, though brief.

the Orb, as if with intention, continues its rotation downward, out of sight.

turning Eastward, and with minutes to spare but no time to waste, we watch the Cascade Mountains rise in brilliant salmon-to-pink-to fluorescent bubble gum.

a thin matching strip of Water’s edge – abutting Coastline – also carries this light/color pattern.

waiting quietly for the blessed moment when the Sun’s upper edge rises into view is too divine, Too Much Spirit, to squander with talking or frivolity.

it is too much sanctity to be anything but humble.

it is about unity – about goodwill and gently reaching out with arms softly open to receive the Gift beyond all imaginings.

the bus trod on.

the young ones loaded themselves and their backpacks into vans.

but we stand erect and still, down below them on the pier.

the Eagle who nests in the tree above the telephone pole outside our front windows continues his screeching chatter.

telltale voice.

resounding across the Air, reverberating through the Water, just as the Sun turns ordinary Seawater into a rainbow of ripple crests.

and if not today, then when?

when will we take time out of our schedules to do what is actually the most germane thing of our life: savoring the Moment?

we do not need to fill our days as much as we must add the space into them so that we may rest, abide, and hold sacred All that is naturally there for us.

living a full life means taking the pauses to bow down to Beauty, to Blessing, to witness the sacred Nature of the Ordinary. i am too little, too silly, too “human” to remember this and carry it through my movements and moments if i don’t receive the glory of a Moonset and Sunrise to remind me.

we are more compassionate beings upon experiencing Awe.

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