Taking It In

It was just one of those moments, yesterday, when everything seemed to be lulling me into a beautiful trance. I sat there, in the garden, smelling the freshly laid straw; watching the last summer blooms swaying in the breeze, their electric colors lit by the afternoon sun. I could hear the children in the neighborhood giggling at a birthday party and down the twisty path, the soul stirring sound of a violin drifting above it all. Try and find a moment today when everything else seems to fade into the background and the truth, of what life is, comes forward.