Today as I was leaving for work I stepped outside and was pleasantly surprised by the dancing of golds and reds as the turning leaves sashayed and tumbled through their tour of the yard. I delighted to the life they lived as they kissed and scattered amidst the autumnal morning rays.
Something about their grace caused the moment to stretch as I became aware. The cool wind moved across me as the sun crawled slowly over the western hemisphere. I was overtaken by the opportunity of the moment to allow myself to receive the nature's presence in this morning's minutiae. My eyes closed and I awoke to another landscape.
Feeling the soft warmth of the sun sink deeper into my body, my awareness began to awaken to the subtle exchange of my breath and the sky, to the traveling of fresh energy through the caverns of my chest into my limbs, to the releasing and circulating of fluids and cells. I found myself in a place that is always there within us beneath the mind, where feeling and awareness lead the conversation...
To be continued...
