In Peaceful and Unhurried Indifference

Quiet teachers, essential lessons

I want to raise up the magic world all round me and live strongly and quietly there.

— Virginia Woolf

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Every feather a miracle taking flight. Every bird a holy being. Work by Stephen Gill.

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Life will go on expressing itself, moment by passing moment, whether I record it or not. This is something that is unequivocally true. Indeed, the ravens and the clover and the clouds are indifferent to the immortalising potential of my pen, and I suppose I love them all the more for that.

Here is something else that is true: everything that is lucky enough not to be a human being is a teacher, without meaning to be at all. And the common lesson delivered by such sages, whether stone or sea or songbird or tree? How to simply be, moment by passing moment. How to drink, in peaceful and unhurried indifference, from the infinitely sweet river of Life. To take and give in equal measure. To be neither brave nor burdensome. To be, just to be.

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