Sometimes A New Perspective Comes About

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Years pass sometimes as I trudge through certain aspects of my life. I don’t even sense that I am in a rut. Everything seems present and accounted for. Then one day somehow I stumble on a new way to look at it. It was there all the time but it wasn’t available to me. How many things are like that?

Last evening I was doing energy work over the phone with my friend Janet from California. I’m the subject, she’s the worker. We were having our weekly session Monday evening. It was warm out and I decided to move my end of the operation outside to the deck by the tapas table. You know the place.

I stretched out on a reclining chair and found myself looking upward at the big cherry tree which overhangs the area. It was there before we got there in 1980 and it has turned into quite a presence over the years. And as I was there working with her I was becoming more and more lost in the structure of this gnarly old tree.

It was like meeting an old friend that I hadn’t seen for a long time. Look at that! And look at that! And look at that over there! I enjoyed that immensely. And Janet wove it into the treatment nicely. But that tree has been in my life most everyday for decades now and it took a different perspective to see it and enjoy it, to appreciate it anew.

It has a great cantilevered way that is spread out horizontally to cover most of our house. This is totally different from the structure of the conifers growing in the crowded forest here. They are interested in height as they strive for the sun. This guy is out in the open and is intent on growing outward.

So, I scurry around under this magnificent tree in its shade and protection doing our tapas rituals. Our guests enjoy themselves laughing and sharing stories. And I take the tree for granted. So that is what I was awoken to last evening. It was fresh and new remarkably.

I wonder how many other things are lurking around waiting for me to rediscover? And a major part of that is slowing down. So thank you Janet for slowing me down for that hour.

Off I go to the day. Unexpected loves, Felipé.

7 thoughts on “Sometimes A New Perspective Comes About”

  2. reminds me of that Grateful Dead quote, ‘sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right’.

    Berkeley hippie love,
    Catalina

    1. C ~ same idea I guess. I’m not up on the Dead. So glad that you are done reading my blog, a treacherous journey, outcome unsure. But you came through. Probably need some counseling at this point. F.x

      1. …and now I’m back for more!! 😂

        I’m not very good at math but if you wrote your 2,000th post in June 2019 and they are about 500 words each, you’ve by now written about 2.2M words!!

        WOWZA!!

  3. the Dead sing maybe my third favorite pilgrimage song (after Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks & James Taylor’s Country Road):

    Reach out your hand if your cup be empty,
    If your cup is full may it be again,
    Let it be known there is a fountain,
    That was not made by the hands of men.

    There is a road, no simple highway,
    Between the dawn and the dark of night,
    And if you go no one may follow,
    That path is for your steps alone.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFsbAuX9P4w

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