TaylorJo and her bike
The gurus say that our minds are colored by the things we think about. They also say that what we think about feeds on our thought energy, and expands accordingly.
There was a Star Trek episode about that many years ago. Captain Kirk, who had landed on a strange planet, conjured up an image of his old school rival who then proceeded to beat him up, as he had done at the academy. Once Kirk discovered that the fight was a figment of his imagination, he stepped out of it. Kirk had discovered the power of mental projection, at least, in the context of that planet.
The picture you see here, rich with bold colors, is of TaylorJo. She lives on the other side of the country now, and I recently spent some time with her when she visited Tucson. This photo is from last Christmas.
She colors my mind when she is around me. One evening, before dinner, she sat down with her friend Téa and played a duet on Lin’s piano. That is possible because Lin’s piano is in our front room.
I made a short video of the two girls playing a duet. Click the link to see it. I’m a simple person, and the notes in a piano score are as baffling to me as algebra. The two young ladies played together as easily as anything. Being sentimental, I got a bit weepy as I recorded the performance. It was a sweet moment. I especially enjoyed the “false start” at the beginning of the scene, and then their getting the rhythm.
We complicate our lives by coloring our minds with less worthy, less wonderful, less delightful things. Why would we not spend all the time we could watching children make music, or watch the sun rising, or bread turning golden brown in the oven?
Our thoughts feed reality. Let us choose them carefully. It serves us to turn away from that which we do not want to encourage, and to color our minds with the primary colors of sweetness and joy.
Namaste.
