Today

Shoelaces untied
You can dry your eyes
Perfect shadows alive
Behind us
This is the day I make you mine

The way your hair lies
sometimes unrecognized
All the way from these today
on a train
Nothing to say if there’s still time

But you are the one
I’ve been waiting for today
And here comes the sun
That’s been baiting on today

Lately I’ve lost my tongue
Today you found the sun
I know not long has grown
Well, I thank God you came along

But you are the one
I’ve been waiting for today
And here comes the sun
That’s been baiting on today

You looked right through me
When there was no one else
I sat beside you and became myself
Today… today

You are the one
I’ve been waiting for today
And here comes the sun
That’s been baiting on today

lyrics by Joshua Radin

Let it be me

There may come a time, a time in everyone’s life
where nothing seems to go your way
where nothing seems to turn out right
there may come a time, you just cant seem to find your way
for every door you walk on to, seems like they get slammed in your face
that’s when you need someone, someone that you can call.
and when all your faith is gone
feels like you cant go on
let it be me
let it be me
if its a friend that you need
let it be me
let it be me
feels like your always coming on home
pockets full of nothing and you got no cash
no matter where you turn you ain’t got no place to stand
reach out for something and they slap your hand
now i remember all to well
just how it feels to be all alone
you feel like you’d give anything
for just a little place you can call your own
that’s when you need someone, someone that you can call
and when all your faith is gone
feels like you cant go on
let it be me
let it be me
if its a friend you need
let it be me
let it be me

lyrics by Ray LaMontagne

Double Rainbow

The double rainbow is nothing more than light being refracted twice instead of once in a rain drop. They always do that, but the second refracted ray is often so dim that we can’t see it. The first rainbow (or primary) we see is produced by one internal reflection; the secondary rainbow arises from two internal reflections and the rays exit the drop at an angle of 50 degrees rather than the 42 degrees for the red primary bow. Blue light emerges at an even larger angle of 53 degrees. This effect produces a secondary rainbow that has its colors in reversed order compared to the primary rainbow. The main reason for the double rainbow is that the sun is shinning and there are still raindrops in the air.

What about the figurative meaning behind the double rainbow? Sometimes we are blinded by our own pursuits in life to stop long enough to take in the splendor of the rainbow. The significance of each layer, the beauty of the colors, which blend in perfect harmony, and the power of its presence. I believe that people are like double rainbows and often times we overlook the value of their being in our lives. The shining beauty that they bring out in themselves and the lives that they touch. We are so busy with the fast pace of our lives that we fail to glance at the spectacular view before it’s too late. Rainbows are fleeing and the blessing that we are to receive from an encounter with one can only be described as visionary. In order to believe, then we must see. In order to see, then we must engage. The lesson of life is to slow down, walk in the rain, open your eyes to random beauty and allow yourself to be moved by it.

Journeys Song

Speak my name, say it for me,

You breathe the air, the mystique.

The clash of the Romans, the kettle falls,

Say my name, say it loud and strong.

Chariots await at the heavens door,

Streamed with glistening bells and petit fours.

Snow white doves, friendships past,

Line the corridor of generations long last.

Misty white sparkling dust, glistening doors,

The welcomed doorway to cross.

Remember the times of yesterday,

Your golden spirit, the hesitant ambitions.

The druid minister, the reveled monk,

All cross the threshold we shall walk.

Generations gone past,

From ambiguity will meet.

They cry, they endure the latest hardship,

And welcome you with open arms.

Their peaceful journey and gleeful faces,

Will announce and rejoice in your coming.

The pain hidden, sorrows erased,

Debts, resentments, hostility fades.

You’re here, you’re with us,

You’re no longer bound, you’re free.

Simple journeys are never really ordinary,

Each life touches the flame of another.

Each becomes ONE and emerges together,

We group, we communicate,

We resonate with the possibilities,

We are united as ONE. Let the stardust fall.

Together we share our hearts,

And our journeys song.

Bond of Love

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Kahlil Gibran

Vision

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

~Michelangelo

Saturday Night Date

Sitting on the couch with my Saturday night date, bordering on snuggling, but its too damn hot to touch. I like it that way though, the warm air circulating by the lazy movements of the ceiling fan rotating above our heads. I have an aversion to artificial air, most who live in the deep belly of the south understand me when I say this, if not, then you never grew up sleeping under an open window in the dead of summer. It’s nearly an out of body experience when you’re laying under a sheet; trapped by shared heat, from bodies, which know better than to move…just in case one might miss the breeze of the cool night air sailing across the room.

Tonight, that same warm feeling spread through me, but it was something different. New replaces the old, but then again, I can’t put my finger upon it. What’s changed inside of me? I’m a different creature it seems. My surroundings feel vaguely familiar, but much more foreign to me since my return home. I’ve been gone on a soul retreat spending time trying to capture why I live and breathe, what makes me happy, re-establishing my dreams, and sliding back into the soul, which once inhabited me. I took a sojourner in San Diego, where I met a friend, who much like myself, is searching from the depth of his being for the truth. The facts of who we are and where we stand in this life. Those things which make us rebound in the sound knowledge of who we are. Who are we? Wouldn’t we all like to know…

A part of me was left in San Diego, the heart part it seems, not the actual beating, but the movements of feelings, which are left with those who need someone to feel something for them. It’s not charity, this giving of time and love, but more so, the connection of one human heart to another. A mending of the minds so to speak, but also, a restoration of things lost or torn down. Which one of us was the recipient of the process, well, it would appear that both of us were. We both gained an understanding of each other, which allowed us to shed a light upon our inner desires as human beings to be understood and loved for who we each respectively are. I truly found that I could love him for him, which is a rare gem of acceptance, when you just love the other person with no holds barred.

I guess this ache in my left side, is the wisdom of my heart telling me that things were meant to be for reasons that I will probably never understand. I grow to trust these feelings of mine, which haven’t failed me yet. I believe that I stumbled upon this beautiful soul for a reason, if it were only to meet, then that is part of the journey. The deeper part of me believes that the journey never ends, where one road ends, then another one begins. If tonight is any indication as to how much I miss him, then its going to be a lonely walk ahead. As much as I tried to enjoy the company of the stranger, who sat so near to me, who desired to hold hands, I couldn’t stop thinking about the one soul, which found a place to reside inside of my heart. I couldn’t stop thinking about whether he had gone out on a Saturday night date too. I wondered if my hand would ever rest in the palm of his again.