Perspective: Walking On Thin Ice…

“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air, a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white cloud, the green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child, our own two eyes. All is a Miracle.” Thich Nhat Hanh

Perspective: Walking on Ice...

It is five thirty in the morning, we’ve been up all night; a sick child, fevers, snow everywhere…
The snow falling steadily blanketing everything in it’s path; a reminder not to take everything to heart.
The noise, the colors, the distractions of yesterday can be swept away … in a twinkle, in a beat.

Tired eyes scan from left to right; everything that once was brightly hued, now covered in white.
The muse’s urge comes to go outside, to get some air, to walk about and clear the mind.
Let’s take a walk and clear our head and touch the sky and kiss the air….
Let’s search for twigs and frozen leaves and ride the clouds and embrace the wind

Perspective: Walk on Ice...

It is six forty in the morning, we’ve been up all night; fevers waning, doctors calling, tissue everywhere…
The snow truck’s humming as salt is spreading everywhere;corroding roadside cracks and frozen earth.
The land, the trees, the nearby pond tasted, tainted by the treatment reserved for the freeze.

Tired limbs move left and right; imagining a gingerly walk around the park, now covered in duck droppings
The muse’s urge did take us there, to stretch our limbs, to get some air, to walk around and shake our fears
Let’s take another walk today to clear our head and say a prayer and scan the Hudson River‘s span…
Let’s search for deer and dawdling ducks and walk on snow and taste that coffee in our cups…

When all is said, when all is done, we’ll have to stop and think of what we’ve won.
To walk the earth, to see the stars, our lives a gift, to know the miracles we daily birth
It doesn’t matter who we are; how big our trees, how small our barns…
What matters most is in our hearts; if we forget, we know the price … is the same as walking on thin ice.

Positive Motivation Tip: Embrace what matters; to walk on earth, to have life, to be grateful for all, our path and more … All are miracles.

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PHOTO CREDITS/ATTRIBUTIONS: Photo of Landscape glacier via PublicDomain.com and Ice Block via Wikipedia

Until Next Time…
Ask. Believe. Receive. ©
Elizabeth Obih-Frank
Mirth and Motivation
Positive Kismet