Comet in the Horizon

2009 February 26th

I was looking for Comet Lulin last night. I couldn't see it because it was hiding in the misty horizon. It was not the right time for me to be capable of seeing the comet.

Many of us look into our horizons, straining to see what is there. But does it not seem that it is difficult to purposely see anything there? Yet, as we are awakening in the morning, mind suspended between there and here, in that mental horizon, little miracles kiss our neurons as we are not looking, waking us.

And then, "Here is your coffee, honey."

"Oh, thanks, I was just thinking something really good, but I can't remember what it was."

It's okay. You could focus on what just slipped through your fingers, or you can be grateful for the miraculous little kiss which greeted you unasked for.