Last week, I got to meet with my centering group and it felt like a link to a touchstone - much missed and as refreshing as cool water during great thirst.
Gannets are enormous and sleek creamy-white seabirds, with black wingtips, yellow heads and necks, and startlingly outlined eyes. They nest on the rocky cliffs of the European and North American coasts of the North Atlantic and, once grown, spend their days sailing across the ocean. The acrobatics by which they make their living ~ steep climbs into the air and speedy plunges straight into the sea ~ are rivaled only by those of pelicans.
What better metaphor for a sweeping search of one's life choices and opportunities than a gannet extended above the waves, a regal and yet restless surveyor of the vast ocean surface? The gannet reminds us that life is an adventure in both beauty and profound unease, and that the sea itself is limitless in its textures and possibilities.
4 comments:
Stunning photo, is it yours?
Laurie S.
No. It comes up repeatedly on various sites if you google-image meditation.
Thank you for the link to this blog.
Last week, I got to meet with my centering group and it felt like a link to a touchstone - much missed and as refreshing as cool water during great thirst.
Wise words indeed.
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