Perceptions

'Loaded for bear' on a 2008 month long trip into the Southwest, United States.

Perceptions

11/7/09

What we find in life,

or how it's experienced daily,

depends on so many influences

like rest, diet, work, thoughts,

past traumas and joys remembered,

whether we can love ourselves,

greet one another with equanimity

no matter the world news,

what's happening near and far,

yet inner cultivation of consciousness

may have the greatest impact

when coming back to peace,

yourself as uniquely expressed soul

in this shared miraculous existence,

often conditions for revelation change,

some drink, or smoke pot,

others run, bike, use exercise

to engage new expanded sensibilities,

while yoga, meditation, also help,

travel can work amazing wonders,

a motorcycle ride, river rafting,

paddling a kayak in ocean,

any circumstance that startles us

from mundane, habitually patterned outlook,

as last night clearly demonstrated

watching sunset, surfers, from Wharf,

Olita's, witnessing seagulls and pelicans

circle below and above me,

opening perceptions around graceful living.