seize the light

[grey_damaskena]

"For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward; for there you have been, and there you long to return."
~Leonardo DaVinci

The weather is perfect as it never was, blue sky and cirrus clouds, golden sunshine, faint wind. Released from the confines of walls and ceilings, I fill my lungs to the very bottom, and every breath is a miracle.

Let us rise up and be thankful,
for if we didn't learn a lot today,
at least we learned a little,
and if we didn't learn a little,
at least we didn't get sick,
and if we got sick,
at least we didn't die;
so, let us be thankful.

~the Buddha

i thank You God, by e.e. cummings

i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;
and for everything
which is natural which is infinite
which is yes
(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday;
this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings:
and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)
how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any-lifted from the no
of all nothing-human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?
(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)