Vision obscured by common occurrence, perhaps appearing disparate today, yet always hope for an alternate perspective. Hardly a coincidence, isolation may principally compound its influence or allow you to seek a different viewpoint. Take notice, observation provides clarity.
05/21/2024 j.g.l.
There.
Sit, quietly and comfortably, where you are.
Acknowledge the gradient nature of progress as it happens with the shades of past days inflecting a presence we don’t often respect.
Take your time.
Feel. Where you are.
At the intersection of faith and contentment you will gradually find your way.
Think about it.
Set your intentions.
Now rise, slowly and purposefully.
Look up, not only with your eyes but with your neck engaged in mindful movement.
Release the stiffness in your bones, allow energy to radiate from the spaces between.
Let the weight on your shoulders dissipate as you allow the arms to simply hang as if they are not even there.
Inhale. Exhale.
Each breath is as important as the next.
Breathe.
Exercise thankfulness, first and foremost to your self and the effort you have just expended.
Hold that thought.
You have already begun to experience the day.
Gratitude will follow with your next steps.
Share that feeling.
Enjoy this day.
05/20/2024 j.g.l.
As it is and will be
for the foreseeable future, there is
only what remains behind the disguise.
As natural as it has been, as
astonishing as it occasionally seems,
we can only hope it will get better.
Why is it we allow optimism
to dislimn all that is?
Hope casts a lengthy shadow.
05/17/2024 j.g.l.
I'm like a pencil;
sometimes sharp,
most days
well-rounded,
other times
dull or
occasionally
broken.
Still I write.
j.g. lewis
is a writer/photographer in Toronto.
How we act, what we do, the chances we take and routines we fall into, are influenced by a headful of inner dialogue, a roomful of opinions, and experience that is constantly changing the world beyond your space.
Right now.
Still, the single most important factor to all this excessive interior and exterior stimuli is your reaction.
Only your behaviour will alter your pattern.
You are responsible for learning or diagnosing, even doubting, what you are doing. Just as you may, or will (or can) switch it up, abandon plans, or simply let things happen as they happen as if it is an act of casual happenstance… and it probably is.
You already know what you do today will have some sort of effect on what happens tomorrow, or Wednesday, or six months come Sunday.
You’ve learned that, mostly from trial and error, but it still adds up to learned behaviour.
How is that serving you now?
Can you answer that question honestly, or will you have to wait until Wednesday; or Sunday?
You know the answer, you do, even if you won’t admit it to yourself (that may be your pattern) and sometimes the answer is more of a question.
05/04/2021 j.g.l.
I’m like a pencil;
sometimes sharp,
most days
well-rounded,
other times
dull or
occasionally
broken.
Still I write.
j.g. lewis
is a writer/photographer in Toronto.