I tell you there’s something about the spring air. There’s something in her breeze that shakes the up the snow globe of reality and sets things on their head. Regardless of where I go, it seems impossible to escape spring drama.

I’ve left the mountains and I’m living in Washington Park in Denver’s Cherry Creek neighborhood. I’m on a bit of a solo meditative retreat here getting back in touch with my loneliness and the adaptive nature of living out of a van. I’m waiting for some of my Colorado friends to get back from a business trip and thus I don’t have much to do. So I sit.

As I sit I can’t help but contemplate the endless knot and how no matter how hard we try as humans to be happy, healthy, fulfilled and at peace, there is always work to be done. Or perhaps we never stop creating work for ourselves instead of letting ourselves enjoy the blessings of an overly abundant universe. I’m sitting in my van and everyone walking past in the park outside seems to be complaining, or working out some serious life issue they may have. As I go out into the park there are people who have their dogs off leash playing and others who are screaming at them for ignoring the on-leash bylaws. To make matters worse spring has struck Moses giving him a newfound desire to hump anything that moves regardless of whether it’s male or female. And on and on the endless knot goes… people, dogs, drama, Oh My!

I was hoping to stay out of it, but I guess that would be contrary to the nature of the universe. Since the knot is endless, its endlessness enfolds me as well as everyone else. The only choice we have is how we react to the unfolding around us. I can become caught up in the endless knot of the universe or I can sit back and laugh the way a laughing Buddha laughs at how entertaining and truly ridiculous it all is. I don’t mean to invalidate others feelings, but just that I don’t need to get caught up in the dramatic realities created by others.

From this new vantage point the man yelling at the off leash dogs looks quite humorous with his furrowed brow and his serious finger pointing. The universe is showering beauty and truth everywhere around him, but he’s quite intent on how serious it all is, and how off leash dogs are ruining his day;-) Man those off leash dogs… gotta watch out for those… they’re pure evil!
The same goes for everyone else, including me, all these things we’re taking so seriously and furrowing our brows at aren’t really all that important. It just feels important in our inability to let go and surrender ourselves to faith and trust. After all things are much better than they appear and we should be grateful to find ourselves positioned in this location in the endless knot.

There are far worse places to be, places like Rawanda during the recent genocide where 800,000 people lost their lives to the unfolding drama of men with machete.

Peace,
d