Notice it....Life that is!

 “Life is full of beauty.

 Notice it.

 Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. 

Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.”

Ashley Smith

The Easter Eggs have been hidden,
found,
candy eaten
and
basket tossed into the pile of things we don't need--at my house that means it is stacked out in the garage.
The church trumpets have sounded,
the resurrection has been preached
and
here I sit....
wondering how it passed me by this year.
I feel withered,
sort of like the Easter Lilly's that were on the altar at church,
all dried up,
flopped over,
wondering if
I'm about to be tossed out on the lawn for the sun to finish me off --placed with the paper from the bunny and the empty bags from the jelly beans.
I ponder...
surprised a bit to even miss it..
miss the rhythm of what used to turn my crank,
wind me up,
rejuvenate my spirit.


I sit here on my couch,
coolness from the overcast day reaches my bones
and
I dig deep inside myself 
reflecting upon life.


It moves and turns
begins and ends
and
I suppose,
the real wonder of it all bombards every day all the time
mixed within the ordinary moments that tick away 
 never to be captured again.


I sit some more...
I listen
and
without rhyme or reason
I hear 
a whisper
it bubbles up from somewhere deep inside my heart space
and
it simply says...
stop...
look...
be..
notice it....
life that is...
it 
is right there in front of you....
flowers bloom,
children laugh,
strangers share a smile,
a touch on the hand from a lover,
 a friend calls unexpectedly.


The sun
it 
rises and sets,
moon glows and goes through cycles
and
all the stuff that happens
in the midst of the ordinary
is the good stuff.


Perhaps today
I will notice...
notice
that 
from out of the depths 
something calls me forward
out of the tomb-like haze of 
"something"
toward
a life
of awareness....


may I embrace it
notice it..
life that is.


happy Tuesday
hugs and blessings.


the radical rambler