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April 23, 2008

Today I find myself on the highest available point in Jacksonville; the twelfth floor of the University Library.How did I get here? It all started with my first step outdoors today. I got up later than expected.It was past one by the time I got around to eating lunch. After lunch, I decided to go on a walk because it is such a beautiful day, it would be a shame to waste it indoors. I walked through the Quad, admiring it's antique beauty. All the different trees, including the ancient and mighty oaks, the rural beauty of the distant mountains, the red brick buildings that look as if they were taken from the nineteenth century, the lush color of the gardens and lawns surrounding Bibb-Graves; all of it is awe inspiring to a mind such as mine. It made me long for an old friend of mine: My Inspiration. She and I parted ways long ago now it seems, and after my walk around campus All I can think of is finding Inspiration once more. So now I find myself on the study floor of the Library, scratching out these words as I gaze out over the breath taking beauty before me. The mountains can be seen rippling off into the horizon from here. All manners of blues and greens fill the picture. Before me stands the majestic Appalachian foothills, clothed in a dark summer green. parts of it are a darker coloration than other parts as the nomadic clouds pass over them nostalgically. More of the mountains can be seen in the distance, fading from green to blue as they run to meet the horizon. The sky as well can be seen where it is not covered by the hulking forms of the behemoths that swim through its pale blue fathoms. Sky blue as Morning Glories melts into cyan tinted milky white as it reaches down to its mate at the horizon. Sky and Land together in Holy Matrimony:That is what the Horizon is after all. Nature's symbol of God's divine rite for humanity. Sky and Mountain, though two separate entities, shall always be bound together until the end of days by that uniting band we call Horizon. But I digress. I suppose that meditating is all about bringing such thoughts about, so I do not mind going off on tangents. That is just how my mind works. The clouds up here are much more personal than they are when one looks up at them from the ground. I can see much more much more of them, and I can better see their lumbering, yet graceful movements.It is quite awesome to look upon them this way. They remind me of great beasts that can be quite dangerous when stirred to wrath,

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