Yesterday a small group of women spent time in a friend’s garden
We were on a mini-solo
staying with whatever caught our attention in the garden
Being open to nature
is it came to meet and greet us
after the first summer rains
I was astounded at how rich it is
How much is there
Right there where I have stepped
every week for so many weeks
But this was seemingly my first time to Truly see it,
When I finally consciously chose to go and meet the world
I saw the Crested Barbit, the very small lizard, the Chongololos making their way quietly, returned with the rain,
looking as if they had never left;
the log that has been placed for us to sit on,
the myriad colours of green, that were surely there the day before,
but which shone so much brighter after the rain.
The Bourgainvillia and the many many flowers, red, white, orange, yellow, purple
whose names I don’t know;
the beautiful rocks, placed lovingly in a basin of water,
the bird bath glistening in the sun,
the cacti,
the crooked twists of the trunks and branches of the many different trees
It felt like a haven, a miraculous paradise on this earth.
I have often appreciated Bev’s garden
But yesterday I met it in a way I have not before
And I wondered, and I wonder
how much of the gifts and miracles of life
pass me by
as I move through my life
with my awareness turned inward
moving through the stories and the dramas of my own delightful mind 🙂
I am learning something about the quality of Relationships
And that I am in relationship with all of life – not only human beings:
The earth beneath my feet,
The Trees that grow in my garden
The many birds that nest above me, the wind, the rain, the butterflies, the bats, the rocks,
And it is my choice how conscious I wish to be about those relationships
As with all relationships as I engage with them,
I discover new gifts, immense beauty.
I am discovering a world of magic,
Just waiting for me to reach out and touch it
What does it mean to be human?
In a world full of magic
To truly be human in a world full of magic…
I suspect the answer is something so much vaster
than what I have been living until now
Like the unfurling of a new shoot
I open myself and reach out
into a fresh new world
Dancing Universe 