Today I want to share my most recent photographs with you. These photographs were taken at different times, different locations. They all share the same message; one that has been on my mind lately.
We often rush through our daily lives from one scheduled appointment to the next, lost in our to-do lists and never looking left or right. In doing so, we miss several small miracles that life delivers to us unexpectedly. Over the last couple of weeks I have tried more deliberately to expand my vision to pay attention to these items, the beauty in the details, the stillness of nature and the messages that the world presents us with if we choose to pay attention.
These constitute some of my own ways to practice mindfulness. They are not only photos, but are moments of mindfulness. They remind me that life offers so many flowers, not literally, but may offer unexpectedly, beauty, stillness or just being. Sometimes it's the smallest flower pushing its way out of a rock, a bee that keeps going, working and working or a bird still flying in the sky.
These are all gifts. We have to choose whether to accept these gifts for ourselves. Not every gift is immediately obvious to us, and not every flower is perfect to begin with. Sometimes we have to look harder, bend over, change perspective or just stop. But it is in this conscious experience where great power exists.
When we allow ourselves to see and accept these small flowers of life, we can fill the pitch of our day with richness of a different sort. Not richness from material goods, but richness from experience, from an inner peace and gratitude, from seeing the extraordinary hidden inside the everyday ordinary.
Especially in times that sometimes challenge us, it becomes even more important to find these anchor points of beauty. They ground us, mash us up, and remind us of the gift of life, with every part of humanity it brings.
Let's try together to notice the flowers that life is giving us every day. Let us take on these gifts with open hearts and eyes, and brighten up our every days a little. I hope my photos can offer you some inspiration along the way.
One last thing for my own sake. I really do enjoy taking photos and putting them up here. I’m going to try and expand a little in the near future and just publish posts about anything that inspires me. I’ve also never done an Introduce Yourself here. I know that would be way too late, but that's the way it is. I'm not quite sure yet where I should put such posts in which community. I'll look around a bit.
Furthermore, my life has changed dramatically for the better in the last two weeks after literally going through hell on earth for the past 10 years. That's also the reason why new posts have been coming in less frequently. But I'm staying here and won't be leaving. Much more, and I've already written this under a post by @acidyoTell me something you like and dislike about hive, writing here is like therapy for me. For a long time, I didn't know I was even capable of something like this, but I'm just going with the flow right now, and it feels so damn good.
Thank you for stopping by! Always take care of yourselves and enjoy life, even when chaos reigns around us.🙃✌️
