How much time do you spend looking at the clouds?
 
In the mornings, I generally walk my lady out to her car. It’s just something that I do. I tuck her in, wish her the best, close her car door, and then she is off to the nine-to-five. Me, I go back inside and dive into whatever forms of creativity I’m working on.
 
This morning, as I was walking back inside, I looked up to the sky, and the clouds were simply transfixing. I stood there studying them. Just pure artistic beauty.
 
I wasn’t trying to make shapes out of them or anything like that. That thing that we have all, always, been told to do. Just viewing their etching, their essence across the sky was enough.
 
When I look at the clouds, this one time in my Life Time always seems to come to mind. I was in Burma back when I was about twenty-five. Pagan, to be exact. I was sitting against a tree and the clouds had me transfixed. I remember this chai wallah, who had a nearby stand, came over and invited me to have some tea. “For free,” he exclaimed, when I said, “No thanks.” The people of Burma were always so nice. He asked, “What was I doing.” “Looking at the clouds.” In some strange way it was like he immediately understood, he had a deep understanding of the essence of what it was I was feeling. “Then, I will leave you to it,” he said with a smile.
 
As I was looking at the clouds this morning, I realized, though they do aways seem to catch my eye, rarely, of late, do I take the time to allow their essence to totally overtake me. …Allow myself to dive into them and allow them to become a complete and total meditation.
 
You know, we all can allow ourselves to get caught up in the on-going-ness of life. It’s really easy to get sucked into the Doing or the whatever. But, if don’t take the time for silence, to truly immerse ourselves in the beauty of nature, allowing it to take hold and become a part of us, then your life, our life, my life will just past by, and we will never have taken the time to truly embrace the pure essence of our reality.
 
Be careful. Don’t let that happen.
 
How much time do you spend looking at the clouds?