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| | | | Around Ananda | November 25
Tuesday morning in the gray light before dawn, I saw a bird
swoop down and settle onto the pond. The dim light only illumined the white underside of the form. I felt the glide, the graceful surrender to
gravity and a mystic ethereal touch that uplifted my heart. Immediately, my
mind said, Its just a duck landing on the pond, negating my experience of something beyond ordinary. My heart
felt differently so I balanced the two, thinking, Yes, it was a duck landing
upon the pond, what a sublime beautiful gift.
I took a moment to write about the experience and as I did
white gulls circled in my mind evoking thoughts of the Gray Havens, a landscape
described by Tolkien in Lord of the Rings, the gateway to a mystic
realm. I dismissed the thought as irrelevant
to what I was writing, pleasant as they were, gulls did not fit with this inland
pond. In five years we have never seen
them here.
At breakfast, I was telling Michael how the gray morning
light had accented the white wings of the duck landing. He pointed out the window, Look, a white bird. Thats not a
duck. A single pure white gull
swooped, then a half dozen, all white, spun around it and winged off. The single gull circled close a few more
times and then it too, flew away.
Today, I feel and see in my heart, the sparkle of a
new dawn. Do you see what I see?
Enjoy, Susan
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