When I sat down to start this podcast, I was thinking about my dad, and I thought that I’d be talking about that experience of losing my dad losing my father, which was a big event and something I do want to spend time thinking and talking about but as it turns out as I sat there, watching this waterfall a photo of this waterfall that I had taken years ago I started thinking about that instead, and I believe that’s kind of a healthy transition I think reminiscing about the past, and you know, showing respect I think if anything honoring my father with his memories by talking about my memories of him is a good thing, but also just being able to love nature and realize how beautiful this world is when you get a chance to be in it for a while And waterfalls are one of those intriguing qualities that bring you back time and time again and even though I’ve focused on the law of impermanence, and I find a lot of value and understanding that there’s a certain permanence about things in nature like mountains, like waterfalls like the ocean that we can come back to that we can cling to when everything else around us is changing we can take a walk go back into the woods go back into the forest and sit by a waterfall And just kind of be reassured that there truly is a garden of Eden and all we really need to do is open our eyes and ears and be aware of it right now as I speak these words I am feeling just a whole lot of love and gratitude for the life I’ve lived and the people I’ve had in it. I talked about my friend Chip in this Podcast, but there are Others, including my mom, my dad, my sister, and each of these deserve the time and attention that I wanna take to think about them in these podcasts and in this blog. Suddenly single the name Suddenly single obviously popped into my head when I lost my my wife Tess of 46 years so a great deal of this was inspired by her, but it is also made me think about all the other people in my life some living in some gone And how each of these has shaped my life in different ways and each of these people I want to take time to honor
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