Beautifully said, thank you--I've long identified with this kind of dance of perception, but especially in the last month as I've taken on a little project to record a detail every day, often natural, and often glimpsed in the way you describe. https://annethomas.substack.com/p/detail-diary/
A lovely piece, a valuable reminder to us to be open to beauty and joy, and what better place to practice that than Monhegan. I have spent the last two weeks of September at the Trailing Yew for the fall bird migration every year for many years and feel like I saw the two of you walk over to George’s on your wedding day--or perhaps a couple just like you--happy anniversary! Hope you feel better soon and are able to return to the island together for your next anniversary.
Thanks for sharing that lovely writing and the window it presents into your indeed fortunate life. Be ever grateful and you, in part, requite the gifts. Buddhists talk about something they call the "Fortunate Aeon" but really the hidden meaning is that each life, whether it be blessed with happiness and beauty and peace or burdened with tragedy and unpleasantness, is the Fortunate Aeon whether it be the shores and woods of Monhegan or the flavelas of Brazil. Peace, beauty, love, compassion and sheer radiance are always all around us, even in the stormy days of the Anthropocene.
Beautifully said, thank you--I've long identified with this kind of dance of perception, but especially in the last month as I've taken on a little project to record a detail every day, often natural, and often glimpsed in the way you describe. https://annethomas.substack.com/p/detail-diary/
A lovely piece, a valuable reminder to us to be open to beauty and joy, and what better place to practice that than Monhegan. I have spent the last two weeks of September at the Trailing Yew for the fall bird migration every year for many years and feel like I saw the two of you walk over to George’s on your wedding day--or perhaps a couple just like you--happy anniversary! Hope you feel better soon and are able to return to the island together for your next anniversary.
Thanks for sharing that lovely writing and the window it presents into your indeed fortunate life. Be ever grateful and you, in part, requite the gifts. Buddhists talk about something they call the "Fortunate Aeon" but really the hidden meaning is that each life, whether it be blessed with happiness and beauty and peace or burdened with tragedy and unpleasantness, is the Fortunate Aeon whether it be the shores and woods of Monhegan or the flavelas of Brazil. Peace, beauty, love, compassion and sheer radiance are always all around us, even in the stormy days of the Anthropocene.
I mighta been there on your wedding day! Belated congrats nonetheless! 😀