Looking Out Over The Vast Blue Sea

Something I wrote some time ago, recently edited & so thought I would share it. Any feedback be greatly appreciated... 

Today

I sit, looking out over the sea eating my hearty, salty, warming soup. 

Children shriek down by the windy sea. 

A girl in pink walks her very happy-looking dog. If dogs could smile…

Behind me a daughter fondly puts her arm around her mother, threading her fingers into her mother's hand. 

Smiling. 

I  find myself pondering … how did we get here? 

Why? 

The vastness of the ocean in front of me, the land behind me full of concrete, a statue of a past regent, a circus tent to my right, cars. 

In motion, whether years ago, right now or looking into the future. 

The water seems unchanging beyond its surface palpitations and undulations. changing to my eyes only the shape of our portion of the globe that which is not sea. 

How easy we now fly over it to new pastures. 

Not even out of need or curiosity like our ancestors but on a mere whim knowing we can be safe in our own comfort zone we call home again. 

We change so much every day with the uncountable, insurmountable options available to us, the pleasures at our disposal. 

Yet mother nature designs not out of choice but pure purpose.

Function. Perfect design that boggles the mind. 

A mind that for certain now, thinks too much, feels too little. 

Evolution of our intelligence-mind wins versus mossed-over intuitive response. Ambition and ego rules to oft destructive ends

Out of sync with our true nature, onness with the boundlessly deep well of the natural world and yet we too, in our own way, are perfect in design. 

But we continue to defy our intuition. 

Inability to control - or see beyond mind, the ego, pure consciousness remains a pipe dream, found only by those investing in their present, and making the space for just that. 

We meditate for 10 minutes, then we once again set the wrecking ball on our world around us. 

Is it all some inexplicable test?

A test of our will and our want.  

Why is it that only we humans, surely no more unique, no more ingenius in design than the marvels of the living world around us - plant animal or simply space, matter, energy, have the seemingly innate ability to go beyond that which is in tune with nature, that is nature. 

And consequently go on systematically destroying that small drop in the ocean of the universe that is our home; planet earth.

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Grow your own vegetables!!! 

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Exciting times: 

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Some choice pics from my tour:

Mariana 4th Birthday @ eleven Tokyo - by Ryu Kasai