Breach
Today was a day like many others.
So how anyone in this season of life ever gets anything, really anything, done is beyond my ability to comprehend.
Most days we work double-time just to keep our heads above water. And most days we don’t even do that.
We learn to float, sort of, submerged just below the surface, and there we somehow learn a new Normal; sometimes rolling onto our backs looking up at a quicksilver ceiling, sometimes rolling over and looking down onto a world sunlit.
Or shadow.
In this way Life has always seemed, to me, like a whale. And we, its happy, dumb offspring.
Life…large and largely gentle in its wisdom, gliding along side us, and over, and under. Ever present and knowing just when to move only inches away to give us the illusion of Self.
And Life…large and hardly gentle in its wisdom, gliding along side us, and over, and under. Ever ready and knowing just when to breach us from our insulated Everything and push us up and out to take air, so that…
…we breathe, really breathe, and know that a whole other world, in fact, exists and rests itself right over our heads.
It’s one of the best metaphor os Life I’ve ever read… It’s simple, powerful, colorful and, yet as simple and complicate as real life is.
It comes though a large and careful observation of oneself and others, maybe being a parent is a plus to this skill.
Sometimes Life seems just like you described it. And the blue brilliant and liquid surface of water is just the right image to it. Deep and profound as well as fresh and calm, wildly and furious, just ask to ourself just to give all we have to earn more than we ever can think of to have. And sometimes it is a high prize to that knowledge, to that wisdom. Sometimes it is hard to achieve. But at the end, even if we are unable to feel it and to see it, all of it worth. I think.
TC, Fantastic!
But I’m not sure why I think so?
At first it strikes me as profound inspired clarity and wisdom. Very much like Revelations. Obtuse yet truth. I’ve read it several times and love it! Your post that is.
But then again…it also sounds like one of those in-depth theological discussions I would have had circa 1978 after a long night at a Doobie Brothers concert.
But you know, either way, I printed it off and have included it on my office wall of great stuff!!!
Thanks buddy!! You are loved.