Wednesday, August 17, 2005
Wednesday Aug. 17, 2005 - Year 3, Day 150 - rainy day sun bathing
8C, raining again/still, as we walk curb gutters run full & fast, faster on a downslope – Gusta sees them as a ‘streams to run in / water fountain combo’ which is most fun at high speed; weather is supposed to clear up by evening
stars shine brightly day & night – every day, every night
through this steady rain I see only shades of gray & gray-blue & gray some more – while the sun shines brightly above those clouds as surely as any other day – but I cannot see it, I find it hard to visualize until a sliver comes through, as it will later today; then it will all be automatic taken for granted & routine once again
this is metaphor for people in our lives, staff, colleagues, collaborators, shining brightly but stuck in darkness, their brilliance obscured from view because we choose not to see – sadly sometimes I miss the slivers too
in many ways they brilliantly shine yet I often don’t see them
it’s ‘always raining something’, my view clouded or obscured by distractions
all the while they burn brightly
who is your brightest star ?
do you see them glow ?
whether they are glowing for you, for someone else or – most importantly – for themselves, try seeing them . . . amazing what is on display if we only try to look, to ask the right kind of open ended question that opens them to revealing
sadly, we often ignore, shut down or squelch people . . . often to put a dark cloud between us that prevents us from ever seeing their brilliance
my friend, my foe, my most intimate acquaintance, the most abject stranger, my child, my neighbour, an associate, my competitor . . . my brightest stars are always glowing, but what/who do I see today ?
they shine brightly every day – like the stars we don’t see by day, they shine just as brightly
our sun shines ALWAYS though rainy days obscure it – at night the world rolls over to sleep letting the other side bask a while
a great meeting of BRIGHT collaborators/co-conspirators yesterday, not just slivers but brilliant illumination – my notes & that energy will fuel a heavy duty writing day for me on several project fronts
this is a good day to be inside, hunkered down . . another pot of coffee & some soft warm background music will muffle the sounds of tires humming through & squashing puddles
happy birthday Trees [TA], vacationing/working/taking root in Mexico . . may your tree have many more rings & much sunshine today
sometimes in these musings we get off on tangents . . . lately cats & my aversion to women who keep them has been tilted out of proportion; enough already
Mark
stars shine brightly day & night – every day, every night
through this steady rain I see only shades of gray & gray-blue & gray some more – while the sun shines brightly above those clouds as surely as any other day – but I cannot see it, I find it hard to visualize until a sliver comes through, as it will later today; then it will all be automatic taken for granted & routine once again
this is metaphor for people in our lives, staff, colleagues, collaborators, shining brightly but stuck in darkness, their brilliance obscured from view because we choose not to see – sadly sometimes I miss the slivers too
in many ways they brilliantly shine yet I often don’t see them
it’s ‘always raining something’, my view clouded or obscured by distractions
all the while they burn brightly
who is your brightest star ?
do you see them glow ?
whether they are glowing for you, for someone else or – most importantly – for themselves, try seeing them . . . amazing what is on display if we only try to look, to ask the right kind of open ended question that opens them to revealing
sadly, we often ignore, shut down or squelch people . . . often to put a dark cloud between us that prevents us from ever seeing their brilliance
my friend, my foe, my most intimate acquaintance, the most abject stranger, my child, my neighbour, an associate, my competitor . . . my brightest stars are always glowing, but what/who do I see today ?
they shine brightly every day – like the stars we don’t see by day, they shine just as brightly
our sun shines ALWAYS though rainy days obscure it – at night the world rolls over to sleep letting the other side bask a while
a great meeting of BRIGHT collaborators/co-conspirators yesterday, not just slivers but brilliant illumination – my notes & that energy will fuel a heavy duty writing day for me on several project fronts
this is a good day to be inside, hunkered down . . another pot of coffee & some soft warm background music will muffle the sounds of tires humming through & squashing puddles
happy birthday Trees [TA], vacationing/working/taking root in Mexico . . may your tree have many more rings & much sunshine today
sometimes in these musings we get off on tangents . . . lately cats & my aversion to women who keep them has been tilted out of proportion; enough already
Mark
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