No other like it

“When we plumb the moment--this moment, not back then, not the future, but this moment--we get deeper and deeper and deeper into the universal heart of being. Finally, being in the moment blossoms into everything and nothing.”
--Ram Dass, Polishing the Mirror (2013).

Spent the day working on a photographic project, winnowing a thousand pictures down to four hundred. My eyes grew tired and my mind weary of pictures and words. Done, I wandered down to the river during rush hour and sat very still among the Queen Anne’s Lace, the wild blackberries, and the clematis. The roar of traffic faded into the sky. Each plant is dear to itself, consumed with itself, enormously important to itself.