! ! Today

Today (Mark it in the diary - then throw the diary away..) : Today dawned with the unusual wrapped intriguingly in the familiar; a freshness unidentifiable; a promise, that promised nothing specific: as if I walk in a world whose infinite complexity is no problem; its multiplicity, a straightforward matter; which delivers something hoped for and yet never formulated with real meaning: simplicity; here and now, yet feels eternal; a heavenly sense of down-to-earthness; a freedom that can’t remember what it’s freed from; where activity only seems to tell one more of stillness, and noise just sings of silence; a day that’s a gift, without a need to ask, or to receive; where surrender is instantaneous, and continual, and barely worth the mention; where paradox is just a game; where being, itself, is gratitude enough; a day that says, this is how things are; this is how it is... raising a quizzical eyebrow and the hint of a smile: you thought it otherwise..? a day that deserves a new-coined word to mark it as exceptionally unexceptionable: the word has spoken of itself: onefulness.. for the gift of just being is beyond all thoughts of giver and receiver; it’s a day that promises to itself and myself, what it delivers right now in each present moment – the indescribably magnificent, glorious, who-would-have-guessed, strangely familiar, and yet utterly new, sense of the ordinary.