There's a particular rose bush that sweeps over an archway in our garden.

Most of the year, it's just a mass of green.

But at some point, a profusion of tightly held buds show up almost overnight, seemingly out of nowhere.

And a few days later, we awaken to the sweetest most heady perfume wafting in through the open windows.

The roses have bloomed, and it is a delirium of scent and color and beauty.

People are like this too.
One minute you're tight in the bud.
The next you're exploded into beauty—fully expanded in yourself.

Today, take a moment.
And consider what or how or when you will be blooming next. 

I saw a show at Northwest Dance Project yesterday in Portland, and got a chance to meet artistic director Sarah Slipper.

The performance was held in the company's rehearsal and teaching space, a big expansive room of grey and mirrors and windows and light.

The dancing was fabulous, dancers so close we could hear their ragged breathing, the way their feet slapped the floor, and at one point, the buzz of the most enormous bee I have ever seen, flying slowly, majestically across the air space if the stage.

Life is your dance.

We get this giant rehearsal space to try things out, but it's no rehearsal.
Everything is live.

Every moment is a choice to be expansive, wild, free, and fully present with exquisite attention to the moment.

Enjoy your dance today. 

I spent much of yesterday in a meadow of daisies, just sitting, being, listening to the birds and hum of insects, the sound of the wind in the grasses.

The energy was magical; a sense of tree spirits, Native spirits who once roamed this land, various energy forms, all hanging out in this meadow.

The light was very clear that day. Everything was in a kind of hyper focus... Nothing hidden from view.

Or so I thought.

When I looked at this photo, it surprised me! The way the light streams in like actual rays. And the misty bluish haze to the left, looking like a spirit from what I've seen of spirit photos.

There is much unseen in the seen world—the ways of God in a meadow.

Lately, I've noticing a lot of folks feeling discomfort around change. 
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They're afraid to change. 
They're afraid to move out of a status quo that isn't working—and that they  know isn't working. This might be career, relationships, moving, anything.

I wonder why we become fearful, when it is time to change?
I wonder what is about group thought that sets us up to be afraid when we are making change? 

Is it fear of failure? Well, of course we're going to fail repeatedly—many times in this lifetime. This is reality for all of us. So why is it a problem?

Is it fear of success? Do we fear that if we succeed, we'll have to let go of situations and relationships that aren't coming along for the ride? Again, we all know this is just how it works.

Understand that your comfort zone is temporary—that try as you might you simply can't stay in bed with covers pulled over your head—and that change and growth are the realities.

This can help, if you feel fear at the aspect of change.

The last week's raced by so quickly, it's hard to even recognize it's gone.

What happens when time moves slowly, or time moves quickly?
In The Rocky Horror Picture Show, they called it the Time Warp.

That's a pretty good term for our illusionary experience of time.

Our experience of time changes with where we place our attention. This can include past memories, future thinking, over-busyness as distraction, or present consciousness.

You know—the Now.

Experiment with your time perceptions today. Explore If you're rushed, bored, have too much or too little to do.

Come back to the idea that It's all illusion.
You're really just right Here, right Now.

Might as well enjoy it.