Dear Readers,
It is quite early–or late, depending upon how you look at it–and the cats are up. Me, too.
Elephant Journal published my piece, “Life–Only Sober” on 18 January, and it has had 8,102 views so far. Thank you. I hope to write more for this interesting, consciousness-raising journal soon. In fact, I hope to become a regular contributor. Meanwhile, if you would like to read my current piece, click here.
But it is time to write new things–fiction to submit for consideration to a friend’s publishing project, revise my novel then shop the result around the publishing world, and work, work, work.
Work has been steady–and interesting–lately. For this, I am extremely grateful.
Great-ful.
It is lovely to be fully engaged with what one is doing. It is lovely being able to be fully engaged.
It is as if I am seeing everything for the first time, not through rosy glasses, but rather, through clear eyes able to focus on the Now. On The Power of Now. Highly suggested reading, by the way. To explore what Eckhart Tolle’s book, The Power of Now, is about, click here.
“With the past I have nothing to do, nor with the future. I live now.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life.” –Walt Whitman
I am a piece of the puzzle that fits. I am a shard of glass catching the light. I am so much more than I realize. So are you. The point of this post, this time, this morning, is not about sweeping images and symbolism. I have not started running marathons. No one has handed me a major award, or a minor one, for that matter. Rather, I would like simply to point out to you that life — L-I-F-E — is comprised of this minute.
There may not be A-wards for present-minded living, but there are RE-wards. An important one is a new, fresh engagement with your own existence.
Sobriety has not made my world smaller. No, it has expanded me, to the edge of this solar system, and it is pushing me ever outward, toward the boundaries of the galaxy, and then to each new Event Horizon that occurs on the journey through the Universe.
OK. So much for no sweeping images or symbolism. But the point is that through sobriety, I have rediscovered the Present, in all its beauty and pain, and I am learning how to fully experience — and appreciate — both.
For in this moment, there is no chaos. There is only breath, soft cat fur, rain or perhaps merely clouds.
And finally, I can not only see this, but understand that it is enough.
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