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cedar_grove) wrote2011-10-23 04:19 am
cedar_grove) wrote2011-10-23 04:19 am
Roses and Football
From The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have.
So we vacillate from the extraordinary to the ordinary, time and time again, and most of us blame the world.
I woke up this morning with an image in my head. It was a simple image, of two red roses in the darkness one above the other with a slight… diagonal – like… if you drew a line between the middle of the two roses, you'd get kind of \ angle, slightly less in fact. It was a haunting image, one that I wanted to create to use as a profile picture on Facebook from next weekend for a few days… with the coming of Samhain and the new year.
I don't have a camera, and even if I did, I'm not a terribly good photographer, and besides, where am I going to get roses to photograph at this time of the year. No, I would have to resort to stock copyright free images from the internet. When I'm looking for a picture or anything I tend to use Yahoo's search engine, so that's what I did… and believe me there are pages and pages of pictures of roses out there, some of them are extraordinarily beautiful, and some are just pictures of roses, and I don't know what it is that makes the difference. Maybe that's why I'm not such a good photographer, because I can't 'see' the spark that will make the difference between a good photograph, and an excellent one (when I'm taking them, I mean). I just snap away… impatient to capture the picture.
As far as us blaming the 'world' for our movement between ordinary and more than that, it's certainly a truism that environment plays a part in what we do, see, and hear… though I'd not say that we blame it of course, for not being better than we are… for not doing something in a more extra-ordinary manner – but it does play a part. For example: this afternoon I was watching the Carolina Game – which we lost, incidentally. To begin with I was watching on gametracker, which…. If you don't know what that is, it's kind of like an animated representation of the field with little peg men that move to show the progress of each play, (with little yellow flowers for flags). Now… watching in this fashion, I was thinking what an ordinary game it was – it was only when I watched the second half of the game with Mir, and could see the whole of the team, and everything, that I realised how 'extraordinary' the game actually was, (unfortunately, extraordinarily bad!) The difference was I could see everything, and not just, as on gametracker, the two (sometimes three) 'pegs' involved in the play. I could see the rush of the rest of the team, the confusion of the melee. The whole game came to life far more… and that's a product of being able to see the 'big picture.'
This of course puts the 'ball' (pun intended) firmly back in our court in respect of who, or what to 'blame' for our swing between extraordinary and ordinary – at least, I think so.
It is the world that is enlightened
and we who are intermittent.
So we vacillate from the extraordinary to the ordinary, time and time again, and most of us blame the world.
I woke up this morning with an image in my head. It was a simple image, of two red roses in the darkness one above the other with a slight… diagonal – like… if you drew a line between the middle of the two roses, you'd get kind of \ angle, slightly less in fact. It was a haunting image, one that I wanted to create to use as a profile picture on Facebook from next weekend for a few days… with the coming of Samhain and the new year.
I don't have a camera, and even if I did, I'm not a terribly good photographer, and besides, where am I going to get roses to photograph at this time of the year. No, I would have to resort to stock copyright free images from the internet. When I'm looking for a picture or anything I tend to use Yahoo's search engine, so that's what I did… and believe me there are pages and pages of pictures of roses out there, some of them are extraordinarily beautiful, and some are just pictures of roses, and I don't know what it is that makes the difference. Maybe that's why I'm not such a good photographer, because I can't 'see' the spark that will make the difference between a good photograph, and an excellent one (when I'm taking them, I mean). I just snap away… impatient to capture the picture.
As far as us blaming the 'world' for our movement between ordinary and more than that, it's certainly a truism that environment plays a part in what we do, see, and hear… though I'd not say that we blame it of course, for not being better than we are… for not doing something in a more extra-ordinary manner – but it does play a part. For example: this afternoon I was watching the Carolina Game – which we lost, incidentally. To begin with I was watching on gametracker, which…. If you don't know what that is, it's kind of like an animated representation of the field with little peg men that move to show the progress of each play, (with little yellow flowers for flags). Now… watching in this fashion, I was thinking what an ordinary game it was – it was only when I watched the second half of the game with Mir, and could see the whole of the team, and everything, that I realised how 'extraordinary' the game actually was, (unfortunately, extraordinarily bad!) The difference was I could see everything, and not just, as on gametracker, the two (sometimes three) 'pegs' involved in the play. I could see the rush of the rest of the team, the confusion of the melee. The whole game came to life far more… and that's a product of being able to see the 'big picture.'
This of course puts the 'ball' (pun intended) firmly back in our court in respect of who, or what to 'blame' for our swing between extraordinary and ordinary – at least, I think so.