Pieces

As I sat looking at this incredible landscape with my daughter, each of us with a sketch pad in hand, I realized as I sketched, the vision was made up of pieces. I drew the top rock formations first, then went down to the trees. I added in the river, the grasses and then went back in to add more detail in the areas. I focused on each section as I drew it. Then moved onto the other sections and realized it was like our life, our landscape of our world.

Looking at things in totality, it becomes this most magnificent scene. Noticing the rocks, the big and little ones, the trees, the live and burnt ones, the slow frozen river and the fast moving sections, an awareness came over me. Our lives where made up of all these big and small bits, live and dead, frozen and fast moving sections. The big rocks and elements made me think of the massive junks of events that occur in our life. The smaller ones, smaller pieces that add into the whole.

I realized that our life is truly a beautiful scene. We get caught up in a section or two as we ride through the big picture of it. Sometimes, we stay there and focus on it too long and forget it is made up of all the pieces. Thinking one section so important, the only thing in our focus. Yes, it was important but the bigger picture makes it a beautiful rock in the landscape. Maybe it was heartache, or a challenge that plagued us yet when it is seen in larger context, it just becomes part of our landscape. Further on, it is no bigger than a large rock with many shaded surfaces put next to many small rocks and maybe even some grass or a tree.

I thought how I often focused on one section too long and forgot to put it in context with the rest of my lifescape. OI made it so central, so large, an obstacle, and got stuck there. How silly it all is looking at this beautiful landscape, that I would get stuck in one area rather than see the full picture of it. Often then it is one of the many elements that made my life what it is. A beautiful scene regardless of the rough rocks, burnt trees from a long ago forest fire, frozen water next to the moving glide of the river.

Today I expanded my view of all the elements of my life. There are many pieces to our lifescape. All are important, part of the scene that is so beautiful if we took a look in its totality as we sketched in Puetre Canyon. No piece had any judgement on it. It was just labeled as a rock, a tree, a dead tree, wild grass, flowing river. Together it made this most magnificent view. I will chose to remember this next time one of the elements seems so challenging. I will remind myself it is just a piece of the big picture. As I step back, it will just be part of my lifescape and only the form of it really remembered.

I hope to realize as well that judging it, making it good or bad, will only keep me close to that smaller view. Labeling it more as just an element, part of the experiment with less emotion, less drama, will allow we to see it more clearly. I also imagine, this more artistic view will support me to step back, put it in perspective and see it was just a large, many colored rock adding dimension and beauty to the larger lifescape of me.

All are just pieces of the larger view which is truly filled with such beauty!

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