This Spring in particular feels as lush as Spring when I was a boy. Or, perhaps I’m only now learning to appreciate it.

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So, let me get this straight. You’re born & because you think you’ll live forever you don’t really take time to appreciate the detail in life like wild flowers.

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As you get older you begin to notice time’s passage & you learn. You begin to see all of the detail missed along the way. If you live long enough & wake up…

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…life’s meaning comes a little more into focus. And when you think you’ve finally got it… your life is over & you pass into the great ether.

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I don’t know if this is true but I read somewhere that the famous 60’s icon Timothy Leary’s last words were “Why? Why? Why?”

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I wonder if he too was thinking about “why” we spend our lives trying to get better at it… then as soon as we get close to the knowing, the curtain is drawn.

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I suspect learning how beautiful ALL of life is… The good and the bad… The grand and the small… is why we are all here and that IS the great knowing.

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“Whiling Away a Perfect Day” ~ Blanco, Texas © 2010 Skip Hunt

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