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Today's
Meditation:
The
little things can be so cool--they're the things that make
life worthwhile every single day. The big things can
be fun, but they also can be very stressful. The
little things are rarely stressful and often highly gratifying,
especially if we can go around "gathering" them as
time goes on. If we do so, our memories will be full
of wonderful and awesome things, and the way we see the
world today
will be strongly influenced by the brightness that's there
in our memory.
I once saw a tree in a small Spanish town in the mountains, just on the
Spanish side of the border with France. It's not a
particularly special tree, but years ago someone put up a
barbed-wire fence next to it, and all the time since, this
tree has been growing around the barbed wire. The wire
now enters one side of the tree and comes out the other
side. The tree lives on in my memory as one of those
cool little things that make life so much more interesting,
as long as we make sure we see them.
A
couple of weeks ago as we were walking past a newly-frozen
pond, I skipped some rocks out on it, and the sound they
made was something straight out of a science-fiction
movie. If I keep my eyes open, I see bugs and snakes
and intricate tiny flowers and cool rocks and nice smiles
and beautiful architecture and gentle kindness. If I
keep my heart young I notice great places to play, nice
sunsets, cool hideouts, neat ice formations, and strange and
unusual birds and animals.
Life
is never ordinary. We can make it seem ordinary by
closing our eyes and hearts to its wonder, but that's not
life's fault. I prefer to notice the little things and
then leave them be--never trying to take them with me or
preserve them--because that's what life's supposed to be,
and that's what makes me happy and keeps away
disappointment.
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