Blessed by a sunrise

// August 22nd, 2008 // No Comments » // Beauty, Daily Life, Nature

Taken today on my back deck.

Sunny side up

// August 1st, 2008 // No Comments » // Daily Life, Mind, Random

This shot from my back deck reminds me of my brain most days. A random fog rolls in. After a time, the sun tends to break through the haze. Things are clearer. Thankfully this doesn’t happen every day.

Music is like this. Certain songs on first listen don’t get inside. A few more listens and it catches on. Reading certain texts like scripture or the Declaration of Independence has a similar effect. Upon a second or third reading, even years later in some cases, causes certain nuggets of truth to appear as if out of nowhere.

I suppose even relationships can take on this mystical quality. One day I realize something really special about my wife that wasn’t there before (from my vantage point). Little by little, the fog lifts.

I’ve realized I have to recognize it as the fog that it is, and the mostly temporary nature of it, before I can see the truth.