Nancy used the words: permeability of things/people. Got me thinking. Permeability (with our emotions and acceptance of situations) is the answer so many times. Stop resisting (worrying, fretting, hoping, avoiding) and just be with whatever it is. Let it move through you. Be permeable. We don't know what is coming - we WANT to know. So then we have to just sit with not knowing and be in an empty space. Let that emptiness move through you. That is hard. Maybe it's getting to this age but it seems like so many people around me right now have either lost someone, or are on the edge of losing someone, or are losing some part of themselves. I'm imagining it's only a matter of time before I will be suffering some big personal loss of my own. I'd like to be mentally, emotionally and spiritually prepared (if that is even possible) so it doesn't strike too hard of a blow. And to do that I just (just?) have to live each moment as it comes and be there in it.
I've been trying out the "portrait lens" on my phone camera. I didn't even realize it had one till recently. I like it. Rhododendrons are fabulous flowers. I prefer this color - not the "red" ones.