for today’s installment of  showing you the astonishing light of being, i share once again a favorite image of the old woman who weaves the worlds as a beautiful tapestry which unravels and rather than melting down, she picks up one of the loose threads and begins weaving the more beautiful world we can all imagine and weave into reality…

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Halleluiah

Everyone should be born into this world happy
and loving everything.
But in truth it rarely works that way.
For myself, I have spent my life clamoring toward it.
Halleluiah, anyway I’m not where I started!

And have you too been trudging like that, sometimes
almost forgetting how wondrous the world is
and how miraculously kind some people can be?
And have you too decided that probably nothing important
is ever easy?
Not, say, for the first sixty years.

Halleluiah, I’m sixty now, and even a little more,
and some days I feel I have wings.

~ Mary Oliver ~

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This is what you should do:
Love the earth and sun and animals,
despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks,
stand up for the stupid and crazy,
devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants,
argue not concerning God,
have patience and indulgence toward the people…
reexamine all you have been told in school or church or in any book,
dismiss what insults your very soul,
and your flesh shall become a great poem.

~ Walt Whitman ~

“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.”

~Hafiz of Shiraz~

today, we have the convergence of father’s day with the weekly installment of an image showing the astonishing light of your being… by george, i feel this picture does just that with the wondrous, windswept ocean of being…

there was no place on earth my father loved more than riding the waves in the ocean… he initiated me very early into this great love and in so many ways taught me how to negotiate and ride the waves of life… of all the gifts he gave me after the gift of life, the one that stands out the most is his unwavering belief that i could do anything, what an amazing gift to give a child…

what touches me the most is his seeing me as the most imaginative person he knew… thousandfold thanks and happiest of fathers’ days…