This morning I was awakened by two Canadian geese honking loudly in the back yard. Did they know that there was heavy weather coming and decide to complain about it?
Yesterday two pairs of wood ducks and a pair of mallards swam around and around the pond. Today there was no sign of them. Did they too have a sense of the coming weather?
What a difference a day can make! This morning I saw no snow anywhere in our yard. Now everything is covered with snow.
I wasn’t going to get my camera out today. “You’ve seen all too many snowfalls this year,” I told myself. It’s almost the middle of April!
The Beauty of It All
Then I looked out the windows and was gob-smacked once again by the sheer beauty of the snow globe world I was seeing. Everything was coated with a thick frosting of white. The dark bark of the bare tree branches contrasts beautifully with the pristine white snow. For a day or two the season of sticks and mud has taken on a coat of white. Soon it will change back to sticks and mud before transforming into a green wonderland.
“The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.”
― Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With The Heart Of A Buddha
So much beauty! Yet so ephemeral! Tomorrow or the next day it may be melting and receding. Soon summer heat will make it difficult to imagine a day like today.
It reminds me that I can choose how to respond to the things I cannot control in life. I can complain about snow in April (which I’m tempted to do). Or I can marvel in wonder at the beauty of it all. I don’t think it will last long and sooner or later it will warm up and bring beautiful spring greens and flowers.
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
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May you walk in beauty.
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