And I was literally just making daisy chains in my backyard.
Starting something new can sometimes seem a bit bigger than Ben Hur. Take this term
of teaching…how the crap was I going to teach art? Needless to say, I absolutely
love it to bits. So inspired by the
amazing works that young people can just churn out. Sadly though, often not
believing in themselves…’it’s a bit fail Miss’…really? You could have fooled
me! And therein lies the rub, we don’t know how great we are or can be and sadly
for some that doesn’t change.
Shel served up santosha in a truly lush class this morning.
I will miss those classes girl, I think I’ll have to bottle them. Contentment
as I have come to understand it is knowing that we are enough and we have
enough at any given point in time. The belief that we need something external
to fill a void is the biggest marketing con around. We can get satisfaction…a
breath of air when the rain has passed…a dive in the ocean first thing in the
morning…the smell of coffee in the air. Simplicity and the serendipity that
these things bring is priceless. Excuse the Master Card (?) analogy here.
I’ve tried finding contentment by looking to things in the
future, but that just led to a 3am wake up call. A favourite teacher of mine
has a quote that I find golden: being present is the most profound thing we can
do for ourselves and in turn others.
Alanis Morisette also reinforces this in her lines: ’the
rest is still unwritten’. It’s quite
amazing to sit on your grass at dusk and make daisy chains, who would want to
be anywhere else?
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