Befriended: Nature Speaks

Will-o’-the-wasp?

A wasp got caught up
in a spider’s web outside my window.

‘I know exactly how you feel,’ I thought.

But then suddenly she broke free.

Effortlessly she hovered,
Her body pointing like an arrow.
“Follow me,” she seemed to say,
“This way is freedom.”


A Cloud’s Eye View

At the end of a violent storm in my area, I went outside to view the results. Overhead, the clouds were moving very fast.

“Does it hurt when the wind sends you tearing across the sky?” I asked.

I followed their progress from west to east with my eyes, and there I saw the rainbow.


Environ

Consider this: which is greater, the individual or the environment?
Although we may influence our environment, of which we are undoubtedly a part, I suspect its influence upon us is greater, especially in the long run.

But, look now: I am part of your environment; you are part of my environment. We are all part of each other’s environments. We are all individuals, and yet we are all environmental. We are all part of each other, and yet we are all apart from each other.

Bedimmed: Confused Insights

I get so confused sometimes,
But from this confusion emerges
Such insights!

* * *

Life is a mistake,
a beautiful mistake!

* * *

Today I came to the conclusion that I am dead, that is, nothing but a walking, talking, thinking, breathing corpse.

Then I thought, ‘that’s not something you see every day, . . . or is it?’

Could it be that awakening is merely waking up and realizing you are a corpse, surrounded by other corpses?

Then perhaps ignorance is only being a corpse and not knowing it.

Where then do you go from here?

Perhaps I should buy a plot and bury myself, or maybe I already have, and that’s where I am now.

If not, what is it that gets buried in cemeteries then? Could these be the live ones?

Or, is that just the maggots, the rodents, and the insects playing with their food? (GRINS)

Basics: Mundane Verities

After decades of trying to understand reality, I’ve only gone from:
“I need to figure this out,” to “It’s impossible to know,” to “I don’t know whether it’s possible to know or not.”

But there are a few certainties, such as,
The refrigerator does not fill itself,
Nor does the bank account spontaneously grow,
Neither does the dishwasher self-load!

Reality may unfold on its own,
But laundry does not fold itself.
Awakening may be instantaneous,
But learning how to live is not!