A Shadow

I had been walking in the cattails down by the lake thinking of tomorrow in the shadow of today. Someone's soul was delivered to the address of my heart with a lovely azure bow encircling a delicate and singular red rose. Oh how fortunate I am to awaken with sleepy eyes and be met by such an exquisitely beautiful and endearing gift. Out of the shadows .... into the light.

Watching the geese continue their annual trek northward, honking and yakking like they were talking to me, I began to think about how beauty and care, love and consideration seemingly approach without a call sometimes ..... on their own ..... Over the past winter I have watched the cattails. They were always there upright and reaching skyward, and each time I saw them I only remembered them from the fall never somehow letting their presence arrive in my mind as existing today ..... as something inherently wonderful in their own right today. Suddenly, today with snow gone and the lake glimmering together with the magnificent sound of the geese the cattails seemed in place and at home..... perhaps this is magic...I do not know.

With this thought in mind however I proceeded to ramble on further trying to "see" things for today..... not yesterday.... not tomorrow.... but NOW. Within a short time I found my stride slowing and eyes could not keep pace with my mind. All that I felt and saw, touched and thought of ..... was very very different than that I perceived previously and deep inside I felt something rise up, straddle my soul and whisper ...... "where have you been" ? Well.... looking around and wondering, yet knowing the feeling inside which had just occurred.... I could not but help wondering if the geese were indeed talking to me..... and as they passed over the tall tamarack's in their glorious v-shaped arch I smiled to myself and concluded - that part of the purpose of geese in their migration is to remind us of the NOW. I'm sure they will arrive back in the fall because some of us.... like me .... have major memory problems. *smile*