AWARENESS ~ FINE-TUNING

Are you seeing things. . . .? -

Or shouldn't we ask ourselves a key question: "What DO I see?"

Do we merely notice the obvious, - enough to avoid tripping over a chair - or do we also notice the less apparent and often more sense and soul-satisfying things in our environments and ever-present moments?

So let's ask ourselves: "Did you notice. . . .?"

Think -- , "What haven’t I noticed today?" For example, did you notice the sunrise or whether or not there was one? Now, don’t start deducing and thinking, "Well, of course there is always a sunrise, so I must have noticed it." If you have to reason it out like that, and have no mental memory of its colors and glow, then face it, YOU DIDN'T NOTICE!

What if there was none? Why wouldn’t there be? - If there were not one, you could have noticed that It was foggy and overcast, which is also serious sensuous awareness! Even then, there could still be a sliver of sunrise peeking from under the clouds or through the fog, offering to be noticed and to share its amazing colour and beauty. Oh! To have noticed all the lovely and interesting reality that is within our sphere! It is actually 3D!!! No special glasses!

What pleasures surround us of which we are too often oblivious! Also, with a habit of oblivion to our surroundings, we may also miss that chair in our path and fall on our oblivious faces! We need to actually BE IN our moments with all our senses and our full awareness and attention. Being alert to one's surroundings is a secret of success and happiness, too, by the way. We can really participate only if we are HERE.

So let's think about that.

Each of our basic senses provides us with wondrous perception of everything around us, 24-7 and for a lifetime, no matter where or who we are; and it is much better than HD sound and digital pictures, even enhanced with 3D by wearing the special glasses!

If they come up with some technological process for us to experience fake smell, taste and touch in similar ways, people will be out paying prime prices to enjoy it, probably in some closed environment which shuts out the real sensory experiences available all the time.

What is WRONG with that picture???

Measured sunlight

Embracing walls,

Illuminating

A corner

Of the painting,

Reflects itself,

Slithering down below

Into crevices

Of the furniture,

Dappling the tile,

Then dispersing randomly

In little lines and globules

Here and there

Returned to where it was,

Appearing merely to tantalize

My imagination.

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

WOODS WISDOM

Filigrees of fragile leaves

Adorn the forest sky

Like artists' handiwork.

Towering trunks project

into the vast unknown

Like Earth fingers

Toying with space

Reaching for its secrets,

Their beauty and their truth

Entwined together

And written on its face.

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

To hear the sounds that colors make

Being colors

Is so much fun!

I hear a lot of pink and blue

When we're together.

But even silver gray

Sings praises to the day

Which made it.

Every hue

From pale to deep

Emits a sigh or roar

For ears attuned

To hear them!

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

The scent of fresh air and sunshine

Awakens my sweetest senses.

Magnolia’s exquisite fragrance

Inspires my sweetest memories.

The pre-storm smell of lightning

And the coming rain

Alarms but also pleases.

And- COFFEE!

AH! I've loved its aroma

All my life!

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

The sky's a lemon meringue pie

Made from heaven's blue

Mixed in outer space

And piled into

A pastry shell

Of golden, well-baked

Earth

For hungry tastes

To feast upon.

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

Feeling

Sunlit morning’s frost

Encasing fragment twigs

In little jeweled boxes

Tracing geometric patterns

'Round rooftop shadows

Cast upon the barren ground.

Frozen driveway puddles

Make surreal concoidal artistry,

Leafless limbs weave

Icy crystal laces.

And then the morning sun once more

Dissolves the magic of the morning frost,

Slipping through my fingers.

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

When I reach into

My memory trove

And find an image,

Scent or sound -

It's always you.

You know who

You are.

And so do I!

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

My original hub titled "Noticing: Fine-Tuning" disappeared, along with several lovely comments. I can only surmise that I inadvertently deleted it myself. It certainly was not intended, so I restored the hub's main features, especially its poetry.

I know that these kind folks commented and am ever grateful for their lovely comments:

Wayne Brown, DRBJ, Pamela, Sunnie, SilentReed, David Warren, ChristopherAnton, Shanaya, Gerry, Merlin, Chris Lincoln, Amy, Hello-hello, Petra, and Nikki. Thank you again.