tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1152631704093093461.post2190772182774343218..comments2024-03-24T10:45:55.061-06:00Comments on the beauty we love: search for?Dean Kellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11391614363610258561noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1152631704093093461.post-33814438642101641332011-12-24T11:06:37.840-07:002011-12-24T11:06:37.840-07:00thanks erin,
so nicely said.
the effort to hold ...thanks erin, <br /><br />so nicely said.<br />the effort to hold on - or push away, so often occupies my attention, excluding the gifts of that moment.<br /><br />letting go of that obsessive desire to control and protect, for me, has made way for an allowing sense of trust that has been a gateway though which beauty / love are found waiting to be embraced.<br /><br />deanDean Kellerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11391614363610258561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1152631704093093461.post-85271962225449464972011-12-24T06:30:32.429-07:002011-12-24T06:30:32.429-07:00i see and understand that the search for happiness...i see and understand that the search for happiness is work that undoes. and i see and understand that peace comes when we allow life as it is. however, i think we put too much stock in happiness. it should never be an arrival gate but rather a temporary state of joy we pass through. it is but one desirable state. <br /><br />i have made some very large life choices. my mother and i speak on the telephone. she prods, but - are you happy? i tell her, this is not the point. she can not understand. she thinks it a failure if i don't say yes.<br /><br />standing at the kitchen sink, watching the first day's light, walking in the wilderness, my children touching me, my lover seeing into the sides of my void a thin wall of being - happiness touches me, yes, and peace, but so does sadness. how can i not be grateful to be alive? without a great wealth of sadness that acts as hands, how can i hold the passing happiness?<br /><br />xo<br />erinerinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16636371927224076866noreply@blogger.com