Wednesday, August 26, 2015


Animated… I run

Oh, the animating forces. And the paths from which it courses…’

On a ten miler this morning, I ran past by a hedge of wild flowers; what I shall call wild daisies. Three of them. Yellow and multi-pedaled, lively and bright, dancing in the breeze. They were large; four inches across. And they smiled at me. So… over my right shoulder,  I smiled back. My soul grinned.

During the next couple miles, the cheery countenance of my natural friends had me musing in and out of rhymes I can no longer recall. Brilliantly constructed; the words, that is. Like the flowers. That’s what my memory recollects. Yes, I often think I should have a pad and pen at the ready for such times. 
For the common observer, it is the artist and painter and poet and her abilities to bring energy and passion to their subject. The poet brings to life the flowers in his poem through crafted words and rhymes and vision.
Animation is Spirit. God’s creations; those of insentient nature, contain the animating forces for man to benefit and be enlightened from. Here is the evidence of the substance hoped for and unseen. Unseen or quite obvious, as three daisies…
 
We are designed and intended to receive the divine wisdom of life through the animating forces. They permeate all that is around us. The artists have their muses. The common man has his deities and his daisies. Or whatever might look like either. It really does not matter. It simply is, regardless.
 
 
 
Where the animating forces mingle, time stops. The wind ceases. The suffering subsides. Love radiates in the vibrance of pure energy. Separate from the illusion and pain of the intellectual world, the animators set free from bondage the lightness of the soul. The bars dissolve into the space between.
 
“There is a great and present need to debestialize and emancipate the intellect. To foster and free the instinct of individuality.” R. H. Conwell
 
After ten miles, my right heel throbs with the pains of plantar fasciitis. It is not suffering, I repeatedly remind myself… in animated artistry with frozen water bottle… creatively rolling with relief under said arch.
This is really why I run. The elements animate me. After 50,000 miles, I'm just figuring it out. How re-assuring!   ;)

Friday, August 14, 2015

Are You?
 
 
 
Inspired from Richard Bach's ILLUSIONS; The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, amidst a parade of castle-white clouds across a blue-sky-August-afternoon. 
 
 
 
Are you
a cloud
Are you the sky
Are you the vision
Are you an eye
 
Are you the witness
Are you an actor
Are you the field
Are you a tractor
 
Are you a wave
Are you the ocean
Are you a comet
Are you the motion
 
Are you a kite
Are you the breeze
Are you a prayer
Are you the knees
 
Are you a rumble
Are you the thunder
Are you the earth
Are you what's under
 
Are you a flake
Are you the blizzard
Are you a spell
Are you the wizard
 
Are you a touch
Are you the feeling
Are you a peak
Are you revealing
 
Are you a human
Are you the being
Are you a sight
Are you the seeing
 
Are you a rock
Are you the roll
Are you a body
Are you the soul
 
 
You are a heart
You are the love
You are a Light
From the God above
 
Embrace the changing answer... as you would your lover-dancer...