Here and Now

 

Do you ever have a sense that you feel entirely whole?

In some ideal world, you feel that sense of "wholeness" all the time. That would seem to be a good thing. 

In my everyday life, there's always something to do, somewhere to go, some task to accomplish, a mess to clean up, in inter-personal communication issue to figure out and reply in my mind, something I need to remember to do as soon as I have time ... there's always a distraction from being present in the moment.

There are times, however, when I'm outside in nature that I feel this sudden and overwhelming sense of "I Am Here! Now! Wow!" The morning I took this picture was one of those moments. 

It was cold. Windy. Threatening rain. I went for a long walk along the beach. The sky was dark and ominous. The wind was brisk, but fortunately blowing at my back (which I didn't appreciate until I walked back along the beach and had the brisk wind blowing in my face!). The waves were constant.

The sun was trying to peek through the dark clouds and made this dazzling white line on the distant water horizon. I kept stopping to look at this scene. It was so dramatic and so intense, there was no place else for my mind to be except Here and Now. It was one of those rare times where I felt all my senses were alert and alive in the moment of Here and Now. It was wonderful.