Small Change

Trees hung with last night's rain

It’s Sunday morning and now that I’ve got a little library of videos, I’ll likely settle in to doing them on my Sunday mornings. I have no idea if this is a good idea or not, but I kind of wanted to get the big “video announcement” off of here, and so thought maybe on Sunday’s, I’d just share something that relates to the day’s video.

I think I look and sound kind of tired in the one I did today. It made me wonder if it was good enough to post, (no – it made me wonder – did I want to post it!) and then I thought, heck, we all look and sound tired once in a while. I’m not going to try to get into looking good! If I did that I’d be sunk. But sounding tired is probably worse than looking tired. You might get bored. The words to go with thoughts weren’t exactly coming at the speed of light.

Today’s video is about ideas and inspiration (oddly enough), but it’s also about process. I have to consider where I’ve got time to sit and do a video and Sunday mornings are the most consistent. So what happens when I come out on a Sunday morning and I’m uninspired?

Here's where you can find it on You Tube

Today I looked out the window at the rain from last night that still hung on the leafs outside, and that lead to one thing and another and pretty soon I knew what I wanted to talk about.

I used to have this Zen saying on my wall. It came from a calendar Mary gave me. It said, “When you know one thing through and through you know everything.” You get those kind of catchy things that come from an idea like that once in a while. There’s the one about “everything I need to know I learned in kindergarten” and there’s one about “everything I need to know I learned from my cat.” They’re usually pretty good too. I’ve felt at times that I’ve learned “everything I need to know from A Course of Love,” and lately I’ve been feeling as if I could discover everything I need to know from my cabin.

Getting this new camera and taking pictures has been a big part of it. I’ve got a whole series now of light and shade. Doing video, I’m more aware experientially of how things change, especially that light…but also my own mood. One day it was so hot. I still have the fan out here, and I’ve never in any summer for the last five years needed a fan. And I was in a mood. I got to imagining doing a video about moods and then the next day the heat broke and the whole thing lost its impetus.

I’ve been so aware, for so long, of big change and, I’ve become aware lately, of small change.