of light and lily
Yesterday was a miasma of grey, and this morning I woke up to a sugar-coated winter wonderland, filled with the fresh scent that only comes with a newly-fallen snow.
I watch the sun rise from behind a crosshatch of bare branches, and a bluebird lands on a snow-capped birdhouse.
Just as quickly, he is gone.
By this afternoon, the glittery blanket will have melted back into earth. Just beneath the surface everything is shifting, changing, washing itself clean.
Everything in this life is fleeting, happiness and sadness, light and dark, sunshine and lilies. It all cycles through in its own good time, despite our best attempts to crack the code that will slow things down, or speed them up.
A lily will open when it is ready to fill the air with perfume. The sun will shine when it has finished talking to the clouds, your heart will find something to smile about when the weeping has run its course.
These are the truths that I have learned.
This morning I stand here breathing in the scent of snow and lily, trying to hold onto them even as I know that I must exhale.
But for a moment, my lungs are filled with light and love and aliveness.
And, of course, that is enough.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:27 am
snow and lily,
swirled.
happy sigh.
snow dust love,
Jennifer
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:15 am
Enough is enough, isn’t it?
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:22 pm
i picture you breathing in the snow and the lily and my heart smiles.
February 23rd, 2012 at 3:30 pm
Everything in its own rhythm..in its own time. Perfectly enough – yes!
February 23rd, 2012 at 4:14 pm
always, enough. I just happen to like the re-framing – the words and phrasing you use to create these new visuals and perspectives.
February 23rd, 2012 at 6:28 pm
Beautiful!
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:48 pm
light, love and being alive…..that really is all we need when you think about it…..okay, i need my camera and computer, too 🙂
xoxo
February 24th, 2012 at 5:01 pm
reading this, i forgot i knew you. forgot about the person behind the words, and just read. fell into the rhythm of your words and just read. thank you for these moments.
February 27th, 2012 at 7:12 pm
You know that for some people, that isn’t enough. You are blessed to know that it is.
February 28th, 2012 at 7:32 pm
Beautiful words, absolutely stunning photo. I could look at it forever.