Word of the Day

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication- Leonardo Da Vinci

I thank You God for most this amazing

day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
for a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes.

(I who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun’s birthday; this is the birth
day of life and of love: and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any–lifted from the no
of all nothing–human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

e.e. cummings
1894-1962

A few years ago when I was in eighth grade, my teacher had us memorize this verse (above) by e.e. Cummings. It was one of my favorites. Every morning we would walk into class and settle in. After a few minutes of rambling with friends I would find myself at my desk. My class would try to start all at once without a que, just from feeling out when it was right to start together.

I just woke up from a nap after spending the night last night at my kindergarten teacher/life teacher's house. Her property is amazing, full of life and relaxation. Her house is defiantly a home away from home for  me. Uma, her daughter has been a shining light in darkness, and she can always sense when I need light in my life. She is a goddess beyond measure. My heart goes out to them <3. 

A day of rebirth this is. RE-vitalizing where we are lacking. RE-energising. 

I've been in the process of getting my license, I guess for my whole life in a sense, but really the past couple of months. I've been wondering what it's going to feel like to have control of such power. To drive a car is pretty big to me. It's a large responsibility. I would often ask myself where there will be self growth for me when I get my license. I've always thought there was some threshold that one crosses when learning how to drive; with age and your perspective. Now after spending time with my family and my close friends, I have seen in prominent places where I am shedding layers of past habits and past fears. I can see where I am growing into new desires and new goals. I can see it in the mirror, in my dreams, in all of the relationships that I cherish more deeply, and all of the things that I look at in a new way.

"It was like hearing a piece of fabric woven with all the colors of the rainbow"- Anonymous