Today I fill up
with a deep delicious breath
No need to eat more
(C) Laurel 2008
I am so loving my life.
Saturday I went to the woods with a friend and after walking a few miles, we heard a hawk calling. We followed the sound down a overgrown path and there, right in front of us, was a hawk sitting in a tree branch at about 20 feet. This hawk was facing away from us but kept turning it’s head to look back at us and sat there for about 10-15 minutes while I took pictures. There is something precious about standing in a hawks world, allowing the layers of it’s being to inform my world, that was so exquisite.
The day before, driving into the countryside, I saw a hawk spreadeagled in front of the car in front of me. Later, when I asked the meaning, asked if it meant if I needed to slow down, the message was no, other people need to slow down and listen. I am to keep going, listening, writing, playing and feeling this big world.
Life is a precious surprise and some days it feels that even my breath is so deep that I need nothing else. I am beginning to see how being present allows deeper layers of everything to open before me and how much trust and love that really does take.
It takes everything. I have a photo poster on my office wall that says “Only those who can see the Invisible, can do the Impossible”, and another that says “An open heart is a condition of simplicity…costing not less than everything” (Osho).
Love your life and everything in it and see it bloom before you in joyful radiance. It is yours, your treasure, your hope.
Blessings,
Laurel
PS: I redid the haiku since I didn’t quite have the syllables right per line…
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