if you are attentive you will see it...'
[Thich Nhat Hanh]
Today I made time to delight in the play of light and shadow on a solitary, dying leaf of a cassia. This leaf, having now surrendered its luscious green to golden brown, had caught a beam of sunlight that fell brilliantly upon it - and decorated its form with a myriad of patterns, silently spinning as a delicate breeze blew... a death dance perhaps. One last chance to shine before accepting one's fate to lie with the earth. Shadows overlaid the surface patterning of the leaf, like a raak. The leaf spinning like a dervish...
I quietly looked on, a grateful witness to this tiny glowing form and its unexpectedly beautiful performance...
1 x 1 x 1 = 2014
