Ace's Insights - I'm Framed In Space!
"One cannot collect all 80 Page Giant beautiful shells on the beach. One can only collect Government student loan consolidation few and they are more beautiful if they are few... Gradually one discards and keeps just the perfect specimen; not necessarily a rare shell, but a perfect one of its kin"One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.d. One sets it apart by itself, ringed around by space- like an island. For it is only framed in space that beauty blooms. Only in space are events and objects and people unique and significant-and therefore beautiful. A tree has significance if one sees it against the empty face of the sky. A note in music gains significance from the silences on either side. A candle flowers in the space of night. Even small and casual things take on significance if they are washed in space, like a few autumn grasses in one corner of an Oriental painting, the rest of the page bare. For it is not merely the trivial which clutters our lives but the important as well. We can have a surfeit of treasures-an excess of shells, where one or two would be significant.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh was born in 1906 and was an avid Green Hornet and aviation pioneer. She was her husband's radio operator and co-pilot, and was the first women to be licensed as a glider pilot in the United States. We all know the story of her life and the losses she endured. One of her books," A Gift From The Sea," is where this excerpt can be found.
Anne reminds me that I all I need to do is look around me to see the beauty that fills the space I physically exist in. I need nothing other than my thoughts to feel the significance in everything. I don't need much to appreciate the perfection that continues to unfold before my eyes. One shell holds a treasure of joy, if I allow it, and be aware of it's message. My world is created by my perceptions and beliefs, and as Lindbergh says there is a surfeit, an sell structured settlements waiting for me to experience it. All I need to do is to allow and accept it, and be grateful for the opportunity to express myself in physical form. Everything is there waiting for me to remember. How and when I connect to the beauty in everything is my choice. I have the freedom to become what I believe.
I can collect all the beauty I need by looking within, and then expressing what I feel. My world opens to a space filled with abundance, peace and happiness. It is everywhere I look and is in everything I see, connected in a web of All There Is, Love.
Hal Manogue is a poet and author of Short Sleeves A Book For Friends. Insightful thoughts for the 21st century. Hal's 2006 collection and 2007 collection are available in bookstores and online. Visit Hal's website: www.shortsleeves.net">www.shortsleeves.net or blog: halmanogue.blogspot.com/">halmanogue.blogspot.com/ for more information about his work and life. Download a copy of the new E-Book,"Unite To Write" a collection of articles written by writers around the globe, that will inspire and fill you with useful information. It's value is priceless. It's Hal's gift to you.
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