These days serenity is borrowed. To avoid the turbulent waters that try to divide the heart’s landscape of love, I find myself seeking the pause. Stillness, where thoughts cannot ripple the surface. I walk into the rain to find beauty in the gray mist. The tucked heads of flowers pigmented like the sun. Their beauty muted because the eyes can stand only so much glory.
With my belly on the mossy lawn I watch hills of ants and find a sophistication of silent cooperation that is foreign to my language. For a moment, I’d like to be an ant crawling into dug caverns, deeper and deeper into the body of Earth until what remains on the surface disappears from the mind.
The cat studies with me. Delighted. Her purr barely perceptible, she is stingy with her love, but her curled lips betray her. She believes me to be a cohort in mischief and I think perhaps I am. Inside the house dust settles into corners and dishes wait in the sink, but I am stealing more time to listen to bird song and soft sigh of grass yielding to my body.
Here, level with the eyes of the cat, I search the understory of life and find pipes made of fungi pushing through last year’s leaves and I know the fey cannot be far away.
For Sue Vincent’s #writephoto prompt #serenity. Click here to participate in the challenge.
The Light Behind the Story 
This is beautiful, Alethea, especially “until what appears on the surface disappears from the mind, “and being a cohort in mischief. 🙂
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Thank you, Crystal. I’m so glad you enjoyed it 💙
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Really lovely, Alethea… as is your cat.
There are few things more healing than to be with the earth, away from the calls of need and duty…just for a while.
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Thank you, Sue. Miss Millie will be pleased to hear you think she is lovely too. That cat has me wrapped around her little paw 😉❤️😽
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I can see why 🙂
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🙂
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Beautiful at one with Gaia, fauna and flora 💜 🐜 🐜
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Thank you, Willow. I very much value this time outside to center and ground into that ever present beauty 💙
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Yes I think we all do 💜
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😘
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Words and pictures in perfect harmony. Beautiful.
Here’s mine!
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Thank you 😊
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I find myself seeking the pause a lot more these days!
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It seems so necessary 💙
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How wonderful. I love that you got down to the cat’s eye level and saw what she sees. The way you write of your connection with the Earth and the beauty of nature is uplifting.
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I find myself hanging at cat level often these days 🙂
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How wonderful. I love that you got down to the cat’s eye level and saw what she sees. The way you write of your connection with the Earth and the beauty of nature is uplifting.
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How wonderful. I love that you got down to the cat’s eye level and saw what she sees. The way you write of your connection with the Earth and the beauty of nature is uplifting.
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It’s beautiful ❤️
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Thank you ❤
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My pleasure 🙂♥️
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