our life as we live it

This was an image I tried to capture a week ago but was disappointed in the results. It's in a greenhouse at the Botanic Gardens in Glasgow, which I pass on Thursdays coming home from work. It's been so cold and damp outside that my lens starts fogging pretty soon after entering. But it is a nice sensation stepping into the tropical zone.

And these stones used to be mountains. Think of how time and wear and weather has worked on them through the millenia. Like our billions of selves on the planet reduced from some primal source lost in the dna of time.

Last week they had just been raked and the notion came to me that this is like aligning ourselves properly with the moment. Our day can become so much about our thoughts and actions and habits and feelings and physical distress all there a-jumble inside. But if we can be the gardener who rakes stones into alignment, we can settle and align all these little stones into something harmonious and clean. A clean path into a true experience of our life as we live it.

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