Who we are and have done..what we are and might still become ....

Well, more from the mid-summer mountain contemplation !

One of the uplifting thoughts from this morning was about the importance of dwelling sometimes ..not so much on who we are and what we have done ( both individually and collectively as a human race |) but on WHAT we are and what we might still become.

Watching the sun appear up over the horizon, the spreading light, the rising warmth and witnessing the sheer awesome beauty of it all, was fantastic. The intensity of the colours as the sun lit them up ( the blue of the sky was unbelievably, breathtakingly, beautiful and so vibrantly alive!) the range of sounds which carried across the valley from the sheep, to birds....even, surprisingly, to my neighbour's noisy pack of Jack Russells miles away ....was stunning.

As the sun first appeared through light cloud on the horizon , it looked so tiny and yet in truth we know it is so huge, compared to the tiny blue orb where we live. In thinking of the perspective of the largess of the sun upon our small fragile planet, it made me feel how tiny I myself am in relation to all that.

BUT, what an incredible gift we, as people, can bring to this amazing table of nature's plenty, because we have the innate ability to see the beauty of it all, to feel the energy , to perceive the constancy and amazing engineering of the spinning spheres of our solar system....we, who are so minuscule....yet have this huge wonderful ability to bring it all together in our minds..to be the ones who see, who feel, who compare...who can give a response which is more than reactive to our survival and continuance, who can perceive the history of the universe and make forecast of its future. Sure, that choice and creativity means we can mess things up ( and we do) but it also means we have the capacity to learn from our mistakes, to take a new position and consciously build a brighter future.

Wow, must get up and watch the sunrise more often!!