Bob Schwartz

I daily walk a road surrounded by the spectacular. Amazing things to see and hear.

When we arrived I was convinced that every day these mountains and hills and cacti and birds would take my breath away, my heart soaring to heaven.

They do. But not quite as in those early days. Reminiscent of the way we love people, I suppose. You want that exhilaration to last, but it seems sometimes to settle in to a bit of subdued though still infinite appreciation for the beauty and wonder. Not quite the same thing.

No. None of that, nature or people, deserves to be even slightly demoted. Everything is new now. Sunryu Suzuki’s famous expression “Zen mind, beginners mind” is not just about Zen. About everything. One time it will be the last time. But this time is the first time.

© 2023 by Bob Schwartz