Instructions

  *First published 12.02,2017 from previous blog

 

"Instructions for living a life. 
Pay attention. 
Be astonished. 
Tell about it." 
— Mary Oliver

 

 

 

 

Pay attention.

Far easier said than done.

The world goes by in a blur of repetitive motion.

The spinning clock hands only push me to get there, to get somewhere.

Paying attention used to for vacations and accidents.

Now it's for ordinary and always.

Be astonished.

I like that.

Curiosity and wonder turn into astonishment.

My eyes need to be open in order to be astonished.

So does my mind.

It's a refrain I return to over and over and over again.

Eyes wide open allows me to take images in.

Mind wide open allows me to really see things as they are.

Tell about it.

That's another process all together.

Impossible sometimes to tell about what I see, what I know.

Maybe because I don't see, don't know.

I can't find the words for these things sometimes.

Painting speaks to me but most other people don't understand it.

I get that. You have to be in my mind to get what is on the paper.

Sometimes even that doesn't work.

I know.