The Younger You Are, The Wiser You Are

Hello fellow zaadsters, I have been out of touch for a while and it's nigh time I checked in.  I've been living some version of the Harry Chapin song....you know, hows it go again? "....the new job's a hassle and the kid's got the flu....." or something like that.  But life is still grand!  I just got a note from my buddy Tim and was really inspired by his blog about his son.  We've got twin 5-month old boys at home and I'm continually amazed at how much they're teaching me.  I'm trying to listen to their sage advice like learning to be flexible with your schedule, that wonder and beauty can be found in the simplest of things, and that a little nap in the daytime can change your whole outlook!

And perhaps most of all, I'm trying to internalize the meaning of one other little habit they have: they always -  and I mean always - greet the day with a smile on their face....even when they're sick!  They're simply happy to be alive, to be on this blue ball, to have parents that love them and a whole day of adventure ahead of them.  Richard Wilbur wrote a beautiful poem about the beauty of being in the world in a child-like way:

PIAZZA DI SPAGNA, EARLY MORNING

I can't forget

How she stood at the top of that long marble stair

Amazed, and then with a sleepy pirouette

Went dancing slowly down to the fountain-quieted square;

Nothing upon her face

But some impersonal loneliness, - not then a girl,

But as it were a reverie of the place,

A called - for falling glide and whirl;

As when a leaf, petal, or thin chip

Is drawn to the falls of a pool and, circling a moment above it,

Rides on over the lip-

Perfectly beautiful, perfectly ignorant of it.

Richard Wilbur 1956

Although a constant struggle, I'm resolving to live my life more in the moment and make each day count. Sometimes I'll ask for your support, and I thank you for all the inspiration you provide here at Zaadz.

Namaste,
Rareflight