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Even a busy family get-together can be a quiet one for me these
days. I found complete satisfaction just sitting and watching the
simplicity and joy of two-year-old grandson Jack singing “Twinkle,
Twinkle, Little Star” in his esoteric-jabberish-dialect, and then finish
it in a flourish, with an "…ee eye ee eye oh!", all the while sitting on
the floor, dreamily waving a toy in the air.
It was even fulfilling to watch how the in-between generation (the
grown kids) live out their focused, dutiful, efforting, achieving, and
sometimes frenetic lives in the same sort of responsible, caring, self-
absorbed way I imagine we once did.
Nowadays I parcel my energy, thankful for a life long enough to see
these happenings, because such moments are touchstones for
meaning, and contentment.
In Reply to: Reflection posted by Jim H. [9712.4141] on August 05, 2007 at 20:23:45:
My sentiments as well, Jim. I swear the older I get, the more fascinating the little creatures become. Your appreciation is a form of praise, don't you think? It may mean we are finally growing up ourselves.
In Reply to: Re: Reflection posted by Sally [8783.1590] on August 05, 2007 at 20:32:24:
Thanks, Sally. I think it is comforting to see appreciation is a gift, even
a miracle, and the expression of appreciation as a form of praise...in
the material world, that is. In the interior landscape, praise and gift
meet where we embrace the Divine.
My body may grow old, my tastes and appreciation may mature, but I
hope I never "grow up". You can take the boy out of Never Never Land,
but you can never...you know.
In Reply to: Re: Reflection posted by Jim H. [9712.4141] on August 06, 2007 at 09:29:06:
"In the interior landscape, praise and gift
meet where we embrace the Divine."
Beautiful!
Namaste
Daisy
In Reply to: Re: Reflection posted by Daisy [1707.3460] on August 06, 2007 at 12:25:31:
...beautiful indeed when giving and receiving are one.
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