Vivid Momentary Insights
Thursday, December 16 (2021) 10PM
‘Vivid Momentary Insights’
It was like
a cloudy sky opened up and shone the light of clarity on my perception—a key
unlocking the door of my consciousness. Word appreciation. Understanding my own
struggle. Bringing with it reward. An understanding of others. May Sarton (in House By the Sea) speaks of
journaling as a means of “trying to sort out and shape experience”, and growing
old as “…accepting regression as part of the whole mysterious process. The
child in the old person is a precious part of his being able to handle slow
imprisonment. As he is able to do less, he enjoys everything in the present,
with a childlike enjoyment.” And so as the child inside emerges, she brings clearer
vision to a present life once crowded by daily distractions disguised as self-truth.
Within it, what’s really going on in and around oneself is finally revealed as
if a clouded veil you have lived with for years has been lifted.
Tiptoe-ing
into the dining room to write late at night, the Solstice Tree is aglow in the
window where the neighbor’s cat, who sleeps with us, is gazing into the glow of
the lights in a private moment of present-ness I am privy to the real world.
The low hoot of two owls calling to one another in the chilly night is
reassuring under the night sun’s luminescence that everything sacred is in
communication with one another. I am
taken with the beauty of May’s words given to bring import and value to her
place among the stars. And so I knowingly place myself there too.
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