I exist as I am, that is enough. If no other in the world be aware, I sit content, and if each and all be aware, I sit content.
—Walt Whitman
Look! This is your world! You can't not look. There is no other world. This is your world; it is your feast. You inherited this: you inherited these eyeballs: you inherited this world of color. Look at the greatness of the whole thing. Look! Don't hesitate. Open your eyes. Don't blink.
—Chogyam Trungpa
I Am Here!
"I AM HERE!" What a revelation is contained in these three words. I love being in this body, separate and part of something greater, whole. This finite existence, this life is the true gift. I feel free, atop the world. I am blessed with the beauty of the empty canvas, the blank page. I have the opportunity to paint my world any color I want, to create any story for my life. All I have to do is draw that first fragile line, write the first intentional word of a poem and simply dream my existence.
My experience in the world seems almost full circle. I came here hungry for wisdom. It has taken me a lifetime to learn what has always been mine. My old worlds dissolve more quickly now leaving me without reference points in the past to hold onto. Most everything I have ever believed has disappeared. What I do believe is more about being alive than anything else. No other assessment of me matters. I stand undiminished to the world in full sail.
With little or no interference from me, my life lives itself. I am and will be, until my death, the vehicle through which it lives. I enjoy all the things I do and have no regrets for the things I’ve done. I love being alive. I stretch the limits of and totally inhabit this body. In a worldly and spiritual sense, I push the limits of both mind and heart. I traveled the planet looking for home only to have found many along the way.
Now, I continue this unmapped adventure into my life from this place I call "here."
I like being "here" where I can watch each day create its perfect self. This space feels safe for me. I am observing without being observed. I am doing what a creator does.
What have I learned that I can give? I read, I write, I think and I dream. These four acts fill much of my life. They are the only things I have done for myself, all of my life, without exhaustion. I read, I write, I think and I dream with whole heartedness. This site is created as a sharing of what I have learned that I can give.
This is the kairos, a propitious moment, an opportunity for the creative expression of my existence in this world.
Photo Credit: "Star Galaxy." Toronto Star. November 3, 1999: