In Which Pooh plays hookey and discovers to his shock, that there are actually other things BESIDES honey that merit the description "MMmmmmmmmm".
We are such lucky creatures on this planet.
To have the ability to experience things the way we do; visually, aurally, tactilely and emotionally is a gift the world is sorrowfully apathetic about.
The indescribable beauty of life is enormous......
Sometimes I think considering how we treat the world and each other, as a species, we are terribly undeserving.
It was such a gorgeous day yesterday, I played hookey after lunch for an hour and took a walk around the lake.
My God we are fortunate to live where there is all this ....nature... within literally 5 minutes of our major metropolitan city
They say (who the heck IS "they" anyway?) Life is in the details....I experienced that walking today. I could pick anything around me, anything ...take a single blade of grass for instance. What do you see? The universe made manifest in a weaving of fiber, water and chlorophyl
This is the most perfect energy factory. Completely self contained . Give
it water and sunlight and and it grows, self propagates, self adjusts, can
die and be reborn, and comes in a huge array of colors, shapes and sizes. It holds together the soil, provides fuel for any number of living engines, AND as if that's not enough, it outputs the one thing on the planet we need to live ... oxygen. and we need to do nothing for it to happen
But that is not all! It also affords us the grace of it's lush colors and the feel of
it under our toes. Or what about how it looks in the fall when it is long, brown and blows in the wind. Or how grass smells after it is cut. Or what it tastes like. Or how it rustles in the moonlight, chuffs in the wind, collects dew in the morning....or, or, or.
All in one blade of grass!
Now multiply that by all the blades of grass around the lake... in this city... on this planet.
There is more beauty in a blade of grass than I could describe in a lifetime, much less on a beautiful day when I went walking.
Posted by Jack at April 23, 2003 06:06 AMlet's see... yes, I have hooky scheduled on my palm pilot for the 2nd tuesday of next week. yay! just kidding. I still have some vacation time to use before the end of the month so I'll be doing some playing around myself. I don't know that I'll have such a transcendent experience, but I'll be open to one should it come around. thanks. or maybe I'll use it to go purchase the DVX... hmm....
Posted by: jeremy on April 23, 2003 08:12 PMLife through a lens....mmmm sounds cool and too much fun to me........... transcendental as well..
Posted by: jack on April 23, 2003 11:00 PM