Today

The work I am going to continue to place here will reflect the more 'creative' side of my life.  To say that there is a side is really misleading because I really do not see that there are any sides to this life but an endeavour to reach towards a wholeness which is the creative force of living life fully, as productively and peacfully as I may for my self and for those whose lives are touched by my living.

I do not see myself as unassailable fortress or secure island I am part of the storm that rages found the calm that we are heading for be we aware or believe that, I kind of think it is so.  That daily life for me is about reaching at least a grazing touch of this calm informs all my activity and inactivity. Oft times I am not concentrated or aware enough to realise this potential and moments slip from my fingers like elvers on the spring tide but the shards of light glimpsed as they slip and slide from my grasp are enough to keep me wading back into the water for in the action of emersing myself in the flow I find moments of oneness if not many of actually ever becoming the flow.

My habit of keeping what I call workbooks helps me keep myself informed of what I am thinking, discovering and wanting to explore further. Out of this do come 'pieces of work' some of which can actually be of some use:0) but each is far more about the process and all the other things that engage me as I proceed.

The WALK TALK THANKS workbooks are filling up and I will in the coming days post specifics and thoughts as I had begun to do.  I will also create photo albums as I have recently done for another project to create a place where overview is more possible if anyone is interested in such things. I have I think finally cracked the from workbook to scanner to file to typepad sequence out enough to possibly repeat the process so I will also be posting pages from the various workbooks that are scattered through my life as they are as much about my 'spiritual practice' as anything more obviously of that bent.

I work slowly, there are invariably gaps when I am 'otherwise engaged' because of health or lack of it depending on your point of view.  But the impetus to communicate with that which is deep within myself and finds expression in the living of a small but definitely exciting as well as somewhat chaotic and confused life continues to impell me, forces me to see that the creative process is all my life not just designated certain areas..

I am intrigued by the concept of prayer but have I suspect walked towards my own understanding and interpretation of this and my use of the word means many things rarely though messages sent by human heart to a God out there somewhere. But as to life and living being a prayer; sacred, concentrated in and on the moment, an offering, a building up, a working out, a growing tranforming reviving renewing process definitely.

For me it needs to hold other than breathing and being it needs active participation and that is where seeing each moment as opportunity and me as expression of that opportunity comes in, followed hard on the heels by physically translating that in ways such as laying a table for one each day with flowers and real cutlery and crockery, to giving myself the time and space to quietly welcome each morning as I rise with the sun in confirmation I am alive to another days gifts, to stepping over and through the chaos, calamity and just plain mess of much of what I call life and touching the beauty, wonder and even magic that is there too.

The words I wrote on the back of each of the small Today concetina books, you'll find the photos over in the album link on the right, say this -

Today

Today
  is
    the
tomorrow
of
  yesterday
the
   yesterday
of
   tomorrow
     and
       the only
     moment
   we may
     embrace
    understand
      and
          live.

        LIVE TODAY!