playing hide and seek with the present moment

by kye on August 14, 2009

I’ve always loved basking in sunshine behind closed eyelids:   especially in bed first thing in the morning, when I haven’t yet opened my eyes to the day.

Today, cloud cover sometimes half-hides the light.  That which escapes the clouds must pass through leaves moving in the occasional breeze. Finally, it must run the gauntlet of my half-opened blinds.

The light which has made it through all this gently teases me, playing now-you-see-me-now-you-don’t, brushing dapples across my closed eyes.

At first I’m absorbed in the question of whether it would work to add a layer of gold where the light will be playing on the surface of the water (I’m thinking out a new painting).  I’m only half-aware of the perfection of this light.  So it tickles me a little more insistently, until I notice and say ‘oh!’

  • http://www.sixtyplusplace.com/ Madeleine

    Kye, This is lovely. There's something wonderful that happens when you first wake up in the morning and lie there and let thoughts come into your mind. All sorts of thoughts that don't come when you're in a gotta-get-stuff-done mode. And I loved the line about the morning light playing, teasing you.

  • kye

    Thank you, Madeleine. …and yes. When consciousness is still rising like a bubble into the waking world, we are still so close to magic, and wonder, and the source of all thoughts. It's a wondrous time.

  • kye

    Thank you, Madeleine. …and yes. When consciousness is still rising like a bubble into the waking world, we are still so close to magic, and wonder, and the source of all thoughts. It's a wondrous time.

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