I was walking out to the barn this foggy day when I saw this beautiful leaf on the ground.
If we didn’t have repulsive things in our lives, would we recognize beautiful things?
If we didn’t have hate, would we recognize love? Would we recognize generosity without selfishness for a comparison?
I do not know the answers to my own Sunday questions, but I’m leading in the direction that it requires opposites in order to live an appreciative life.
Another Picture On The Wall 
I think you are right, Gary. Contrast gives perspective… yin/yang. 🙏🏼
Hope all is well at the ranch, full-on holiday prep going on?
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Hi! Yes, the wheels are in motion but seemingly at a more relaxed pace. Pottery has become a focus around here and family comes over to create Christmas gifts. There is something very wonderful about the entire process, especially given that it all begins with the clay, the earth. The opening of the kiln is always done with great anticipation as you never know how it all withstood the firing, how the glazes turned out? We have our three Christmas trees put up and a small Christmas Village. I had a really big village that the grandchildren used to love, but lost that six years ago. Never felt like doing it again. However, the residents of this smaller version seem content to get taken out of the garage and from their cardboard storage. Still no frost, so zinnias and leaves on the trees have held on longer than normal. Getting things pruned and sprayed lightly with copper fungicide and neem oil to prevent curly leaf, 3 times – on Thanksgiving, New Year’s and Valentines Day. Only way I’ve found to control curly leaf etc. I made six compost “bins” out of fencing and I am also chipping my pruning instead of burning. I added a bunch of sheep manure and spread 2,000 worms into the bins along with Amazon cardboard etc. Seems like it is working pretty good. I see quite a few worms that I don’t recognize from the first 2,000!
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Sounds leisurely-busy! Enjoy the weeks leading up to the big day. 🙂
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Your very important questions remind me that I once read there can never be complete peace because there will always be turmoil and disagreement. So many of us ask how can we achieve peace?
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Yes, not one who reads the Garden of Eden passages as literal, there are many lessons within it though. Did Adam and Eve understand the bliss of their original situation? How could they, if they had never experienced anything else?
Our pets can be such wonderful teachers and guides as they live such abbreviated lives and they become dearer when we realize that. Loss and Love are always linked. So does that, in some weird way, make so many of the negatives actually a blessing? Or, are we so unaware, disconnected, perhaps even stupid, that we require hatred in order to know love? I don’t know. Maybe we relive the Garden of Eden story over and over again?
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I believe that we need to recognize our indifference. On my journey I’ve come to understand that we are all born pure and loving, think about how much changes when anyone is around a baby? They bring a sense of love and joy. Over our first few years, we’re conditioned and that love changes. If we become aware and return to that loving state we can break that cycle, animals naturally have and bring as you said as do babies. That’s where we all have to return to, our innate loving soul then share and give that to others which changes that cycle that pervades modern society today.
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