Touching

"There is a teaching that says that behind all hardening and tightening and rigidity of the heart, there’s always fear. But if you touch fear, behind fear there is a soft spot. And if you touch that soft spot, you find the vast blue sky. You find that which is ineffable, ungraspable, and unbiased, that which can support and awaken us at any time."*

~ Pema Chodron   

 

 This tree lives close  to a trail at Del Valle Regional Park.  I look at this photograph and I see dance and I sense prayer.  Ah, to be so rooted and to know such freedom. Yes, I yearn.  Yet, today I think  the unlimited sky is so very close, even when I fall.      

 

* First Sip, June11, 2020. www.claudiacummins.com