Do you ever notice...
11 years ago
Do you ever notice that we don't look up to the sky very much anymore? When I was a child, I used to look up in fascination as I saw the never-ending blue in the day and the black and stars of the night. I don't do this as much anymore. I suppose that in society we are sort of trained to look only at our own levels, or down in shame. I was just thinking to myself, how do I expect to ask the Creator anything if I don't look up, how am I supposed to know where the hawk is guiding me if I am not looking to see where it is leading, and how can I expect the eagle to carry my prayers if I don't even bother to look for the eagle? And lastly, how do I expect to get the most out of my life, if I am only looking at the lower half of all I potentially could be seeing?
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I do look at the sky every time I go outside, and especially at night when I look at the constellations. It's kind of scary looking at them....
i do not know bird spirits, though i'm sure they are fine people too. the ones i know live in the forest, between the mystery of the trees.
perhaps if i had grown up in deserts i would know eagles and hawks. if i grew up in cities i would know more about this thing called shame.
but i grew up in forests, so i know deer and bear and mountain lion and porcupine and skunk and pine martin. those people.
i know only about this thing called creator, the words of men. but i know something big, friendly and invisible gives great hugs.
i do not know of one thing being over another. again only in the words of men is this a thing i hear. it is not a thing i see, with either eye.
I think you noticed on your recent visit to NYC that New Yorkers hardly ever look up and it's true.
During the night? Too much light pollution. But what I do see makes me both sad and angry: We --- the human race --- went to the fucking moon what the hell happened, and why aren't we still there now?
Of course, I was rapt by it when I visited Big Bend two years ago and could see not just the brightest stars, but the very Milky Way itself!
Dominus tecum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hyWpUruuG0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpKVRLgjtto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mihsYu-F9Sw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULqjDg_YFCw
Thank you because this is one of the simple lessons that without, I wouldn't have seen the Eagle I did a day ago. It's about recognizing that we have to look in places that we don't usually do, in order t find the things we are looking for.
Thank you for reminding everyone this important lesson.
On the other paw, I see some value in the way animals like sunks tend to keep their senses low to the gound. Rather than out of shame, they are veiwing the world in ways that most overlook. Through patience and scrutiny, one can discover the extrordinary things in what most would assume is ordinary. ^!^