Daily Obstruction: Being Present

[Today’s Daily Obstruction is in the form of a philosophical poem.  Because why not?]

Life Passes You By as You Busy Yourself With More Important Things

 

 

If a breeze rustles through the leaves of a tree,

But everyone has their earbuds in,

Does it make a gentle sound?

 

If a bird sings a song,

But everyone is on the phone,

Does it sing as sweet?

 

If the sun bestows its light,

But everyone is in offices beneath the florescent glow,

Does it care?

 

If I am here

And you are there,

Do I love you less or more?

 

If the world goes about its daily chores

Without even a glance at Nature,

Will it one day wake up to discover

Life is as real as it is rare?

Daily Obstruction: Philosophers & Monsters

 

Philosophers & Monsters

 

The riddle of the Sphynx is the nemesis of the philosopher.  Its essence is time.  Its effect is a plague.  The Sphynx stands before the philosopher as the personification of Nature’s objection to all philosophy.

Daily Obstruction: In Season

In Season

It is never “unseasonable.”  It is we who presume to dictate what the weather should be.

Daily Obstruction: In-Tuition of Nature

In-Tuition of Nature

Nature’s first lessons are taught with pain and pleasure.  Once these are learned – if ever – then she whispers the secret of communion and fidelity.  After a long apprenticeship, she secretly bestows her creative power, indicating graduation.  This is done unceremoniously and the only rewards she offers for such a rare accomplishment is delight in poetic pain.

Daily Obstruction: The Spiral Curriculum

Nature’s Spiral Curriculum

 

Life lessons are presented obliquely.  They are learned, if at all, by repetition.

Daily Obstruction: Planned Obsolescence

Planned Obsolescence

Death is woven into our genetic code because the one principle that Nature refuses to abide is stasis.

Your Daily Obstruction: True

True

 

There are precious few straight lines in nature.  Why then do you suppose that your trajectory in life will be a straight line?  Rather, it’s curves, zigs, zags, squiggles and scribbles.  Yet, it is only by nature’s example that the carpenter and architect establish any plane or plumb.  As part of nature, you too have your wiggles and your hidden alignment.