Do you ever get the feeling that you have been thrown around and around and around by time chasing its own tail?
I feel like my hair is standing on end and filled with twigs, grass and leaves. My eyes are darting around and although I know that the whirlwind has stopped turning my senses are still poised in defense. Somehow, a part of me feels that listing things after the fact will help me regain my balance.
I wonder what really happened in all those moments. Moments blurred with the speed in which I swept past, holding on to the tail of time. What did I miss, what could I have done better, said better, how could I have listened more or what could I have allowed to be born by giving it the time to slowly and gently emerge?
I close my eyes and I let go of time's tail. I slow down and look around.
And suddenly small things emerge. A moment of clarity as my eyes follow the dance of shadows across wolf fur. A reply to a apology humorously reminding me to not take myself so seriously. A realisation that another way of achieving exists and that small baby steps and lots of courage has the power to transform my life.
A hope that if I stand still long enough the hundreds of opportunities around me will manage to gently land on my shoulder and lead my heart in a new direction.
12 comments:
Hel, your writing is lyrical. Your words are, as ever, a balm to me.
Your world is so beautiful. I'd love to be in it! :)
I feel thrown all over the place, all the time and it was good to know that we can all stand up after that.
I love the all the photo but I love the first one more.
This is an inspiring post, Hel. Thank you.
You and me, sitting on the shore and watching waves, letting them soothe us? With the wolves?
I certainly know the whirlwind feeling. I'm just learning slowly to sit down and be quiet for a change.
all i can think is look at all that wide open sky. makes everything seem possible when there is a sky that big.
"A hope that if I stand still long enough the hundreds of opportunities around me will manage to gently land on my shoulder and lead my heart in a new direction."
This is a lovely image, one I'll take with me through the day.
Thank you for writing this ... I've been feeling much the same lately. Lots of golden opportunities, too many to choose.
thank you honey for this reminder. xo
It's that seriousness of self that often feels like my greatest weakness. In you however, I enjoy it. But like me, it seems you need to escape it at times.
ahhhhh, very lovely.
oh all that water. the loveliness of it all--the pictures and the words, they soothe me.
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