Red sky at morning: Sailors [Shepherds], take warning!
Funny, isn’t it, how we become so attached to our superstitions and assumptions about our daily experiences and expectations. If we put too much stock in signs and portents, isn’t there just a little bit of a chance that we might do the safe and predictable and wrong thing and end up so very much smaller and less interesting than we might have become had we taken a chance? Seems like it might be ever so much smarter to take a chance at growth and improvement and looking for enlightenment, don’t you think?
Lightening Upward
Nothing do I covet,
nothing lack and
nothing seek–
except the serendipity of Light
that cuts the darkness open,
transforms blackness
to less bleak,
and with its glinting stars sweetens the night,
that makes my thoughts reach higher,
afire indeed
to reach the peak,
enlightened now, and gladly there alight.
Imagine! There could be some lovely opportunities and surprises in store for us all if we open our eyes and look for whatever light can leak through into our ordinary, dim and easily influenced expectations. At the very least, why not choose the challenging and positive and exciting interpretation when those old signs and portents show up again?
Red sky at night: Sailor’s [Shepherd’s] delight!
Art-Colored Glasses 
I totally love this!! Today was perfect timing for me to read this 🙂
Thank you, Pearl, and welcome here! I’m delighted you enjoy it. 🙂
to reach up, we much first seek. And this is why your words are so powerful.. c
I’m going to go and seek a ‘soak’ in your words of wisdom and delight shortly, too, my sweet!
K
Thank you for such a thought-provoking post!
I’m happy it spoke to you, Meg. 🙂
xo
At the end of our days, it’s not the risks one takes that are regretted but those we failed to grab. A wonderful post today, Kathryn.
You said it. I am working on the whole throw-out-useless-fears thing, one gingerly step at a time.
This was great. Thank you dear Kathryn, with my love, nia
Thank you, sweet Nia, I’m glad you liked it.
xo
Kathryn
I find that the older I get, the less risk I take.. thanks for reminding us to take chances once in a while!!
Given what a big chicken I’ve been all my life, I think I owe it to myself to try to get *better* at risk-taking as I age, but of course as you say, that contradicts nature. So I’ll keep working on it. 🙂
Love this. It’s the falling that’s the scary part. That if we take a step toward the unknown, our heels might slip off an unseen edge and down into the chasm might we fall. Forgetting, of course, that at the bottom might be Wonderland. Or a looking glass refracting back to us ourselves, but limned so our light fragments up through the sky. Here’s to taking that first step! Thanks for the inspiration 🙂
Oh, you said that so gorgeously, darling Desi! What an image. And yes, let’s take that step and all of the others that we dare–and a few that we don’t! 🙂
xoxoxo
Simply look & ye shall see, good suggestion, precious KI…
Thank you, my dearest–and I *will* try to take my own advice! 🙂
Wonderful, Kathryn, I love your beautiful advice and wisdom~
As I do yours, Lauren–I wish I were better at living up to it all, but it’s a continuous process, isn’t it!
xoxo
Yes, it is…on paper, it’s easy; in life, it’s challenging sometimes! 🙂 xo
‘nothing seek–
except the serendipity of Light’
How TRUE-ly lovely, Kathryn. I went through a period so caught up ‘in signs and portents’, in manifesting and psychic-seeking (and still have friends who are) but now have eased into something more Zen, more acceptant but strangely also more motivating and productive, I think. So this post resonated deeply with me.
Have I told you before how I love your work…your reflections so engaging and finely written. Love, Diane
Diane, darling, I thank you from the bottom of my heart. The rich friendships like yours that I have found here in Bloglandia are one of the best examples of that serendipity of Light that I have had in my life.
xoxo!
Kathryn