September 28, 2015
(If we live with an open and grateful attitude, every
day will bring a gift. This is one of 365 gifts during the year I turned 70.)
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| An almost invisible thread holds this leaf. |
Today
was good for a walk in Downs Park, just a few miles from my house. I have
always loved to walk. I know that kinetic activity connects with the mind; there
is evidence that it enhances the mood and improves cognitive function. Sometimes,
I write poetry while walking. Often I notice things I’ve never noticed before
and make new cognitive connections. There is no doubt that daily walks helped
me while teaching and working on my doctorate.
I
walked three miles today, mostly in the park and stopped to watch a curled dancing
brown leaf. It appeared to be twirling about midair as if it were alive. The
truth is that there was a slender, almost invisible thread holding it from an
overhead branch and it moved in a slight breeze. I was an audience of one,
mesmerized with a ballet accompanied by sounds of chickadees and waves lapping
the shore. I blew on the leaf, changing the dance with my breath. If I return
tomorrow to the same spot, the slender thread will probably have released the
dancer to mingle with oblivion.
Maybe
like the leaf, I too dance midlife, connected by an invisible thread of
awareness that compels me to be in the present. I have freedom to interact and create
new motion with the air around me. I breathe and alter my movement but my
awareness is ultimately limited by how far the slender thread can swing.
My
gift today is a slender thread.
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