Perspective

I needed a reminder this morning that I am but a small, small part of the timeline of life, and I didn't even know I needed the reminder.

Until:


I was throwing sticks for my dog, and I turned around and saw this, and started laughing so hard I had to sit down in the wet grass.

It's the moon! Right in my backyard. At 7 in the morning.

Amazing.

There is some kiss we want with

our whole lives, the touch of

spirit on the body. Seawater

begs the pearl to break its shell.

And the lily, how passionately

it needs some wild darling! At

night, I open the window and ask

the moon to come and press its

face against mine. Breathe into

me. Close the language- door and

open the love window. The moon

won't use the door, only the window.

~Rumi

Translator: Coleman Barks

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. ~Oscar Wilde