[Thespiritexpress] Read at on Tuesday: BirthdayCreature

[Yasskin Marc]

Wow ~ what I want to know is what was that animal coming up your leg ~ !!

Beautiful reflections in the moment ~ love how you take time for yourself especially on your b-day like that.
Talking time for real intimacy ~ with ourselves. ~~~~ and especially in Nature.

Learning how so many know nothing about that ~ or have cultivated the time/space for it in their lives.
Artists know it better than most ~ love your new book ~ wonderful playful ~~~~ profoundly delightful. ~ !!

yr pal on the Path,
~m.🙏🌟

> On May 27, 2023, at 12:13 PM, Riantee Rand via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
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>> The Creature on My Birthday
>>  
>> I sit perfectly still at a confluence of two streams
>> my feet caressing the water
>> where a twisted branch
>> churns the water into foam.
>> At the place where moss swaddle the massive rocks
>> the quivering ferns plot a new flow
>> and the sound of water turns into distinctive voices;
>> when I listen too intensely,
>> the voices become sounds again.
>>  
>> A black fish suddenly shoots across a deep pool
>> clearing a path through my consciousness.
>> When it leaves my vision I catch sight of a furry creature
>> now swimming towards my leg.
>> Its thick brown coat is dripping,
>> wet strands partly hide its tiny ears,
>> it has the tail of a swimmer, the eyes of a hunter,
>> it is here, right here,
>> in the eye of the present,
>> on the head of a pin,
>> so close to my truth
>> it burns a hole into what I called my reality.
>>  
>> Through that window I catch sight of a new me
>> untroubled as a forest,
>> limpid as water,
>> surrendered to what is.
>> My leg is a tree trunk
>> that can readily accept being climbed on.
>> I am dispassionate and present,
>> I do not need a name for the creature,
>> I do not need a name for myself.
>>  
>> As the animal starts climbing my leg
>> a branch suddenly snaps and startles me.
>> My mind rapidly takes hold of the situation:
>> What foolishness.
>> My leg is no tree trunk,
>> I am no forest.
>> I am made of flesh
>> that can be easily torn.
>>  
>> Horror stricken at my transformation
>> the animal jumps back,
>> and
>> with an impossible twist of its spine,
>> plunges backward into the water and swims out of sight.
>>  
>> The mind rearranges the world
>> to make believe
>> that it has control.
>>  
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