| | A Moment In TimeLooking back over some of the Kween_of_the_Queens past challenges, I see several that I had not responded to for one reason or another. One that caught my eye goes back to January 2006. It was entitled "A Moment In Time," and readers were challenged to recall a single moment in their lives and describe that moment and what they were feeling. The first thing that came to my mind was a moment that will remain with me for as long as I live.
It was in the fall, Autumn actually, of 1979, about 7 o'clock in the morning. I was on my way to work dressed in a cream colored business suit, when I suddenly stopped in the courtyard between the front door and my car. The morning air was not cold, or even crisp, but there was a mild breeze that gently caressed my legs while my skirt swayed ever so slightly with the occassional gust of wind. There wasn't a cloud in the sky.
Suddenly I was aware, as if for the first time, of the leaves as they moved across the sidewalk and of the early morning birds singing as they began their day. And for some strange reason, whether it was a trick of the morning light or a trick of the mind I can not say, I was aware of a seemingly heightened sense of sight. My awareness of shadow and light was so much more than it usually was, making everything I looked at stand out in relief, having the appearance of a close up view and a view from a distance both at the same time. I saw sharper edges at the borders of buildings and individual bricks and of the leaves in the trees, and I seemed to be able to see at least one or two layers below the surface of those leaves to view the very veins that carried their nourishment, and I seemed to see the individual grains of sand that went into making each brick that formed the walls of the building that I had just left, and the individual strands (bits? pieces? shafts?) of fur on the Squirrel that had just perched itself on a tree limb some 30 to 50 feet away.
And in my mind, it seemed that I could sense the presence of a greater cosmic wonder than I had ever before known, and I felt like I was a complete and integrated part of that greater whole. It was a moment when I felt completely at home and at peace with the universe. It was a moment of wonder, as when the world was fresh and new. Oh how I wish I could have stayed in that moment.
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| | Posted 9/1/2007 4:41 AM - 14 comments
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