I Remember
Kind of ironic that the point of the post by Sanjiv Manifest and the re-share by his lovely wife Cherie Manifest was about living in the here and now, in the moment, experiencing deeply each breath, each thought….whereas the first thing the photo did was to take me back to that amazing 24 hours or so that I spent with my photography mentor and tour-guide extraordinaire Mark Metternich there at Crater Lake, OR back in the fall of 2011. It’s really hard to believe it’s been that long.
But it’s also apropos because of the very intensity of the experience during those 24 hours. We arrived mid-afternoon and just as Mark had advised me, nothing could prepare me for the awe-inspiring vista that awaited when we crested the ridge and looked down at the most intensely blue water I’ve ever seen. Then watching the sunset, then watching the Milky Way rise over the lake, then the sunrise. Breathing in the amazingly clear air, listening to the birds, watching the squirrels and the other tourists taking in the same beautiful vistas. Talk about living in the moment! (Ok, maybe we were also concentrating a lot on our camera gear to make sure we had the right settings and that I was applying what Mark was teaching me, too….)
And yet, as rich as those memories are…..they are memories. Spending time with them now takes away from experiencing the same depth and richness of my daily life – even the current moments sitting in Chicago’s O’Hare Airport. 😀 Watching the young families with little babies, the men and women hard at work on their computers (like I am), hearing bits and pieces of random conversations about all kinds of events and feelings and experiences….
Experience life where you find it, whether around the stunning Crater Lake, OR https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/115290581869426960897/albums/5651672536312926065) or sitting in an airport terminal waiting to go home to your family.
Namaste and as always, thank you for the reminder, Big Brother and Sister.
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Originally shared by Sanjiv Manifest
Taste the here and now…
In the future, in the distance are illusions.
Taste the here and now …
This present thirst is the real intelligence, not some
back – and – forth mercurial argument.
Discursiveness dies and gets put in the grave.
This contemplative joy does not.
Scholarly knowing is a vertigo, an exhausted famousness.
Listening is better.
Above excerpt from The Soul of Rumi, Translations by Coleman Barks.
Image: Crater Lake in the Mornng, from www.stuckincustoms.com copyright Trey Ratcliff
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