beijing's depth

Beijing is here, and has pressed under her waters; as the first fall into a stormy sea, pulled deeply under spinning. what seems as if. me
the further you go to a place that is unfamiliar; the more you touch mind deeply. memories of past hurried to present themselves in the now. here i believe is the beginning of appreciation, the gentle waking of gratitude. A Yearning to re-turn to Love. the yearning of return seems to be most accutley tasted the unknown, in the unfamiliar...yet, the New seems to be waiting to be discovered here-

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If i wake up in the morning with a heart to, awareness to accept the new that comes,
lightly moving in action in a dance carrying an aim, I think -
my life will be enough!

As Professor Bebeau said " look into that. see what is there, follow the thread"


this may be enough

this life is temporal, a temporal reflection,
a temporal movement to re.member

Perceiving the New, dropping the Old

Courage is harder than one thinks, or should I say that I thought. Fear even when it is blocking the sun's rays is easy to live with. It takes little effort to keep around and to adapt to. It seems one can go ones entire later life living with this companion. Even welcoming them. Why? Maybe for the most obvious reason; it keeps us away from the new. The unknown. Or so the mind believes. Courage is needed to accept the unknown, the same unknown that keeps popping up in those particular places and thoughts. Yet, it is easier to put them aside for the future, that doesn't ever come. I mean the future is constantly coming and going yet that moment of dropping habit never comes. But it can. Only in the now. Never in the future. What is it your New that you are avoiding? It may be as subltle as walking home a different path, yet it is not in that planned path that you decided to find the new. It is the moment that your eye is caught and you make that sublte turn. There it is!~ the new. Ever subtle but transformative.