Breathe With Life

Wolf Creek, Grass Valley, California/Photo by Gaye Abbott 2019

Lost in the clouds – form, color and light.

Imagining into shapes creating stories unfolding overhead.

Dwell in the magic of the wind playing with the clouds.

A simple sacred beauty.

Reminder that life is always changing in every moment.

Impermanence.

Clouds seen in one moment shape shift in the next.

Looking away for a single moment

we miss the clouds breathing with us.

Weaverville, NC/Photo by Gaye Abbott 8/2023

Creek flowing home to a destination that is felt, but not seen.

Sound of water flowing over rock and earth

serving as a meditation on life constantly shifting.

Fluidly finding the way around and through crevices…..or flooding the surrounding land.

Marking this sacred space for remembrance of now.

Inhale and exhale

Water flows….breath flows

with stone, earth, plant, tree, feather

alive with the fluid pathway journey

of each moment that will never come again….

Wolf Creek, Grass Valley, CA/Photography & Altar by Gaye Abbott 2019

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A necessary ingredient in the Universe is chaos. It can sweep you and the life you have so carefully constructed away. And it is also the place from which all things start anew.

Knowing that you can plan for something your whole life and still get taken by surprise.

BREATHE…

Sunset, Blue Ridge Mountains, N Carolina/Photography by Gaye Abbott, 11/30/23

December Practice Suggestion: Take time to breathe with life in walking meditation or simply in the moments of everyday life. Stop the busy holiday preparations, distractions and scattered thinking – even for a few moments each day. Loosen the reins of control and expectation. Dwell and breathe in life unfolding now…..

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“ORDINARY BEAUTY” will be a series of short weekly blog posts through the end of this year on finding and witnessing ordinary beauty through the experience and wisdom of elderhood. Stay tuned!

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Gaye Abbott, Wildly Free Elder, 12/1/23