windthread

as i was leaving,   closing the Gate…..

there it was….so perfect so small    so        powerful       how it triggered such a response in me  

maybe in this new year i'll be willing to become better,  more diligent,  more patient and gather better words for things i want to say?,  maybe but not yet….so i can say….i was flooded.  Flooded.   with sensory feeling by this oh so small leaf.   Valley Oak.  Up here on the Hill it's predominately Live Oak.  but down there by the creek…Valley Oak that are the shape of my childhood oaks.  That Huge Tree at the end of the driveway of my childhood home that had the oh so oh so oh so fine rope swing that sailed out over the steep gully,  that had the multicolored leaves in the fall,  and

the multicolored ACORNS that i would collect to keep in the cigar box .   Jewels.

and this little leaf among many larger ones,  it felt in the moment i saw it     like the small skinny Me that swang in that swing and my Brain,  which is substance,  my Brain that houses somehow my Mind which remembers  and triggers my Heart which is a word for a psychic phenomenon all this was Flooded with such PLEASURE and LOVE and WELL BEING.    Think of it.

all that happening because of seeing a leaf