Watching Stones

       I don't particularly feel like being inspirational today, in fact I might even want to just sit here and be a little indolent.  And I think that's okay.  My brain is tired from learning and growing, and my body is exhausted from the work.  The results that I am constantly striving to achieve seem daunting at times, and right now is no exception.  I am at a place where the road I am on has many turns in the path that beg to be traveled.  I feel the need to tour every trail, to see it all, to know it all...but for right now I am weary.  I will sit here and rest for a while, and I will not feel guilty about it.  I know that the clouds will rain again and the sun will continue to shine and nourish, but I cannot keep chasing the wind for the roots that wish to grow to this spot.  The earth beneath me right this moment is what I need in order to strengthen my core, and this moment is all there is.  One day I will get up and continue down one of the many winding paths before me and I will be grateful for the opportunity to journey.  But right now I am thankful for the shade and repose.  Rest, relaxation, inactivity, slumber, quiet, calm, tranquility, composure, serenity, PEACE.  Life moves so quickly that we feel we must keep up.  There are times to wake and work to be done and meals to be eaten and items to be cleaned, people to care for.  But right now I need to care for me.  I need to NOT move as quickly as my environment.  I need to sit with my legs crossed and look above the swirling chaos of life to stare at the still stars and constant moon.  Once I slow down to a zero pace I can see how busy even the earth is.  Clouds blow by, birds sing and flit, ants toil away, and even squirrels busy themselves with the gathering of what they probably don't need.  At an even slower pace than that I can begin to see the energy emanating from a slowly reaching tree, the flower lifting its face towards the warm sun, and the rock as it breathes and bathes in its environment.  I must lay here, like a stone, and just watch.  Observe, view, gaze, contemplate, survey, regard, behold, and study until my mind is full and my head is tired.  Then I will breathe in and close my eyes to allow myself to be nothing but a thing existing.  Once I am only that, only being right there right then, then I know I have arrived.  When I am thoroughly rested I will once more pick up and start out on my travels.  The journey ahead may still appear ominous, even disconcerting, but the only way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time.
Why rush?

A Perfect Circle- Eat The Elephant