Its a question that I ask myself a lot. Maybe its a Scorpio thing, My Love who's birthday is 3 days after mine experiences it too. We are reluctant to talk about it but it happens - undeniably. Its this feeling that comes over us. In words it would read "What's it all about? Essentially all we do is eat, sleep and poop. All the other activities we engage in are just there to facilitate the first three." Oh sure we do other things but the impetuous for doing them, even if its a heroic act like saving someone's life, is just to facilitate more of these three primary activities.

So, yesterday afternoon when I was in the grips of this state, agitated, not even being able to sit still for a cup of tea, aimlessly overwhelmed with the endless list of things that need tending to, I realized what I needed was to dig in the dirt. I always get grounded when I do that. It tends to bring things back into perspective. 

There is a "kinder garden" in my yard where I have a few three year old fruit trees, little saplings about two or three feet tall, that I keep enclosed in a six foot fence to protect them from the inquisitive muzzle of Lisa's fawns. It was while I was caught inside this "cage" weeding and transplanting ground cover that the skies opened up. Raindrops as big as blueberries fell from the sky in a sudden torrent that defied the afternoon sun as it made them sparkle. 

At first I kept weeding but then I realized it was my wakeup call. All around me there were creatures and plants engaged in the same activity; resting, taking in nourishment, excreting waste. That is what life is all about. The sudden rain, splashing through the sunshine represented the essence of the nourishment for all of us. All life on earth depends essentially on these two elements; sun and water. To see them intertwined in the sky like that was a dazzling display of opulence. 

I stood up, reached my arms to the sky and felt the raindrops wash over my face until I was thoroughly drenched. It was in that experience, that moment of "NOW" that the glory of my life reaffirmed itself for me. It is the love that makes the rain special. Love and the ability to learn. Without the extensive knowledge about the nature of our universe that we have amassed, we would not realize how precious this commodity is that simply falls from the sky. It is learning and the accumulation of knowledge that transforms getting wet into a magnificent experience of life.

It is the experience of life, learning to recognize the precious nature of that experience, that can move us from the mundane to euphoria. These pictures here were taken last weekend as My Love and I enjoyed our morning walk on one of the local islands. The links are opportunities to learn about the preciousness of our life stream on earth.  

Theater of the Mind by Jay Ingram

"An Inconvenient Truth" a film worth watching

Enjoy.

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