I sat by the window….
Slowly the deep blue sky changed… i couldn’t see the many many stars visible few minutes before the sun came up on the horizon…. It was very bright…
But i could see all the things around me for miles… the trees rivers flowers and birds… the roof tops and the clouds with colours….
My brain said …. haven’t you read about this very many times & written& spoken about it…? So whats with you today… i said to myself… absolutely no clue …. But i watched it slowly rising higher& higher… by noon it was quite warm right over head… the earth was slowly turning… but it looked as if the sun moved over head until it came to the western horizon …
What was i feeling& thinking… the footsteps of light showed me the near& far as if it were the threads on the loom… what was moving the earth& sun… and why…. A question i asked often as i read about the planets& science of deep dark space of emptiness and gas columns of star formations… but there was something far more complex than just a fleeting feeling or hot gas of chemicals… those things in a human made lab made people ill… but the stars seemed to heal something within us as we watch the sky from far… as sun rises or the stars shine… a comfort and wonder,… a sense of hope that makes the brain muscles think… think there may be something more to the meaning& purpose of lives lived… though it seems as such… as earth turns& sun sets it seems we are on the edge of the galaxy& light and the things we know for certain seem colourless … a void of uncertainties… for us to look deeper& farther… but it seems science says it was the past from many light years before… i sat looking at the wonder asking myself… how did i feel a sense of hope& comfort watching stars light years away… as if the brain knew a memory from long long ago… how? If i swam across the deep blue void to reach earth… how did i get here& why?… how did my brain know to ask these questions…. How? How did i cognise the light rising& earth turning around….? The thought turning inside my head…watching as if life knew a forever from far… yet the speed of earth& stars were incomprehensible to the simple observer… mind boggling when one learns the science& math to calculate… these calculations were still about drawing a straight line… though the path itself might wind around as if easing to walk the mountain path to rise higher… yet very few knew or could comprehend what lay ahead as one walked the winding road… may be its a reason we write& read… teaching our minds to walk with care & wonder through the mysterious uncertainties… watching each day as light rises in the middle of nowhere in the emptiness…. If this isnt the silent vibrant possibility… what else could it be… the milestones we see each day reminding us of rhythm of certainty& change… a fascinating combination that makes our brains think… seek the wonder& ask how& why…!