“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”
– Henry Miller
To me, true travel takes place not so much between physical destination and physical destination as between point-of-views. Even in this more family-oriented trip, farther away in physical terms then I’ve been before I find myself gaining perspective. Before when travelling, I have gone alone with whom I travelled following where they wanted to go. This trip more than ever I feel I am doing it by choice and not nearly as constrained as I have in the past. This is good.
I love the turning of the kaleidoscope. I believe we all have internal ones. Mental patterns of perspective and colour that shift continuously into new patterns whether we wish them to or not. Some people fight desperately to hold onto a pattern that they find pleasing and indeed they may slow the shifting of the patterns down but it never stops completely. I love the shifting myself. I try to find as many people who will cause that shift as possible because each new outlook, each new pattern tells me something new about the reality in which i live. For once a new mental pattern has been formed it is ours to access. Each perspective has brought me greater understanding. Even the ones I don’t particularly like. Perhaps especially the ones I don’t particularly like.
Blessings, G
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Sunspot Mandala by G A Rosenberg