Sacred Sight - The Tao of Giggling...

Verse 65 in the Tao Te Ching talks about living simple-hearted.

Yesterday I had a great afternoon, chatting with my Mom.  We talked about many things.  Both of my Grandmothers are transitioning out of lives that could be over in a heart-beat.

Any of ours could be.  Life is such a strange and beautiful journey and sometimes more beautiful in death...

I think that is why I'm fascinated by this gnarly tree in Hawaii...The photo was taken a long time ago.  I was a different woman and she, who snapped the picture, is dead.  Naivete is gone, but the child within flourishes.  

I still love this crazy photo and the antics involved.  It was taken before I knew much about "serious" photography, with a crappy little camera...which I dunked in the seven sacred pools a few hours later, after slipping on a rock.  

Would have been more funny if it didn't hurt so much, pride mostly.

This shot wasn't on the roll of film that went for a dip...

The thing about experience and education, is that you eventually learn "why" things are good.  Exposure, framing, color temperature, lines..

I love the universality of this windswept tree, weathered to a point of organic purity.

Simple-Hearted 


I can also see what is good about life, having lived for a while.  I know why life is good.

I also continue to consider, IF I died in this moment -- What would I be most grateful for?  It sounds cliche, definitely family, friends and me.

Now I'm going "back to the very beginning, a very good place to start" -- so I can know it for the first time.

Then, in the now.

"I love to laugh.  Ha ha ha ha...Loud and long and clear....I love to laugh...Ha ha ha ha...it's getting worse every year."

Is it possible that Julie Andrews really has solved this anti-gravity issue way back???  But we were to serious about taking ourselves seriously?

I love to giggle (see below).  It's my first night in St Thomas, I was giddy and sis was fatigued.  My adrenals really came through for me...my toes were energized by sand and surf!

So...laughing with self...I took a picture of our polarities...Tee hee...She was so NOT humouring me...as in the case below.

The HaHa Treatment:

Humour is the new-old approach I will take with writing, creation and well, anything.

There are so many ways to be inspired or burn off steam; food, exercise, sex, travel...all good -- but there is something about a sustained belly laugh...

Universal archetype stories, even the most serious ones, can eventually elicit a few giggles.  Sometimes, however inappropriate, even more so.

Here are some of my life favorites!

Life is an opportunity to Laugh:)!