ENOUGH

We spend a lot of time cogitating on how things should be different, how someone or something could be better. The panel of commentators in your brain likes to have opinions and solve problems. AND the brain is also capable of opening, like a vast sky of awareness, to welcome what is already here. Is this a safe moment where action is not immediately necessary? If so, can this moment be enough for now?

In mindful presence,
​Lori

Mind Wanting More
 
Only a beige slat of sun
above the horizon, like a shade pulled
not quite down.  Otherwise,
clouds. Sea rippled here and
there. Birds reluctant to fly.
The mind wants a shaft of sun to
stir the grey porridge of clouds,
an osprey to stitch sea to sky
with its barred wings, some dramatic
music: a symphony, perhaps
a Chinese gong.
 
But the mind always
wants more than it has--
one more bright day of sun,
one more clear night in bed
with the moon; one more hour
to get the words right; one
more chance for the heart in hiding
to emerge from its thicket
in dried grasses—as if this quiet day
with its tentative light weren't enough,
as if joy weren't strewn all around.
 
—Holly Hughes