Fields of people
Each day as you look
out onto the fields with the pathways that lead through to sit in the grass or
on a bench, sometimes bearing you on a shortcut from one place to another.
Everything is not as it seems.
The people you see on
your way or as you sit, some alone, some in company are a world to themselves,
the moments you observe are but an instant in life you cannot begin to fathom.
For from whence they came to hence they go remains a mystery. If you follow
one, where goes the others?
Clouds of distress
You hear the cackle
of laughter, yet, it might be a shield, an escape from another situation for
which words cannot be found. We roam our worlds almost like listless clouds
some bearing violent storms that ruin the landscape below, life and livelihood
brought to waste. Some shifting for the brilliance and warmth of the sun to come
through, others shielding from the radiative destruction of the rays of our
planet’s life-giver.
You wonder if each
cloud has a purpose, the present and absence of which that make the difference
in a day and as you add up the days, the end of the year is a harvest, for some
other clouds brought the rain to water the grain. One is not a nephologist and do not
mistake that for a nephrologist.
For me, there is a
mystery in people as there is of clouds, their forms, their motion, their
dispersal, the experience of standing in a cloud on a tourist trip to Mt. Teide
on the Canary Island of Tenerife.
Winds of change
In people, there is
another aspect of clouds, the ones that cloud the eyes that you cannot see
clearly or worst still, a clouded mind that finds it difficult or impossible to
comprehend, to reason, or to think. These clouds have given some countries the
worst leaders in the most trying times.
If only there were a
wind of change and this wind is a carriage of the people by their voices, in
their acts and through their votes to sweep these stormy clouds way out to the
seas where turbulence and meet turbulence without harming anyone else.
Creatives of
empowerment
Back to the fields,
the fields of life and even the expansive field of the Internet, whilst taking
a bench on Twitter, I saw a kite of such beautiful colours and when it landed,
it was in the Instagram flower garden of the Uncles David, two amazing married
men who have been together for decades of love and life, pairing up in the same
apparel and smiling encouragement to us all, even as they face the frailties of
the body.
It is from Uncle
David that I found this saying and it is one I will not forget. “I
challenge you to invoke your creativity, not as an escape, but rather as an
empowerment.” David K North.
Away from the clouds
and within the beautiful garden of flowers carved out of the wild fields we
find ourselves in from time to time, I present the Instagram page of David K North,
many things to many people, a place I found to meditate and get inspired. [Instagram – David K North]
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