When you look, do you see wonder and inspiration or “same ’ol, same ol”? How can we recapture our innocent eyes?
Kudos to the photographer who captured this glorious image of Stephen Broadbent’s sculpture, “Empowerment”. To really appreciate the photographer’s genius, his “innocent eyes”, take a look at the entire monument erected over the canal at the Lincoln City Centre, Waterside District, England, UK and then maybe you’ll agree, it would easy, especially if you traveled this waterway every day, to be so distracted by the engineering and/or logistics (or just getting where you’re going) that you miss the sculpture’s awesome soaring inspiration.
Let your mind start a journey thru a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be… Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar, and you’ll live as you’ve never lived before.
— Erich Fromm
I wonder how many of us are looking at the world through jaded eyes that no longer see the everyday-wonderful in our lives? I mean, it’s downright easy to get caught up in the daily dramas that clutter our lives… to find ourselves inured to joy. And thus, we grouse our way through a litany of Ain’t-It-Awful’s until we’re drowning in icky, sticky, Woe-Is-Me’s… Carl Sandburg put it nicely:
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
So What?
If we consistently yield to the hippopotamus in us, if we coast down the waterways of our lives seeing everything as mundane, so what?? Why does it matter?
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