05/20/19 / by Jesse Griffith

Cold rain dancing on parabolas on a backdrop that can’t wash the fingerprints of ghosts’ fear away, they must be tamed.

Most of my time is spent searching for the song from the innocent heart that keeps me alive. The song is elusive and always just beyond reach. How do we get there? How do we know it even exists? A few days after discovering this "Wandarian" mode/technique, I was doing some work deep down a logging road in the middle of the bush a long way from anywhere and anyone. It was in the midst of an autumn afternoon when I had a visitor in the form of a white wolf. I saw him twice that day and never again, he directed me towards a magnificent maple tree in full foliage. I could feel the bright intense glow of the sun yellow leaves pulsating. The glean was tangible as I attempted to walk away, but it kept calling me back. So I turned around to this marvel and succumbed to the awe. There was a lasting exchange of energy.

Often we forget to appreciate the little things life has to offer. The gifts that potential brings are endless. This maple tree in a forest of a million trees was there to illuminate something inside of me. My own sacred tree, the great symbol of the gifts that Mother Nature provides from the fruit to shelter, warmth to transportation, shade to delicacy, air and nests and song and beyond.

These kind of in-tune events give me reassurance, affirmation of the ether and the wonderment of each moment and showing me the courage it takes to thrive, grow a little bit each day and adapt to the surroundings and seasons that turn beyond our hands of control. The thing about being closed minded is it doesn't allow anything to penetrate in but it also blocks the outflow. We create and manifest our own suffering. If one stops to take time from the daily grind of societal expectation and convention to stop and take breaths and enjoy the presence of unspoken wisdom’s that lie at every turn of the way, things would be simpler. Find happiness in these small, precious moments. Doing something for others always raises happiness.

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