Hey, are you busy right now? It will only take a minute, I swear. And you wouldn't say "no" if you knew where we were going. Because we're going to City Park, and it's around 7:40 p.m. Have you ever been to City Park at 7:40 on April 28th? It's beautiful, you've got to visit. The birds are silhouetted against the lake, but the lake doesn't look like a lake: it looks like the sky, which looks like a painting, in every form of pastel purple and pink and blue and gray. It's perfect: nothing is the same shape or size. The sky is positively breathing, inhaling the world like oxygen, and we are just a piece of the whole. It nestles the Denver skyline; the cash register building looks like a curved robot, facing the sunset, just like us. The ducks dive in the water, and as the sun sinks they move to higher ground to settle down for the night.
Are you almost ready to settle down for the night? Me too; let's head home.
But wait, stand there for just a moment. Do you feel that? Can you hear it?
That's the feeling of forgiveness, of gratitude. That's what "time-is-on-your-side" feels like. That's the sound of acceptance and love.
And on the ground is a little toy soldier. Pick it up! Keep marching, my friend.
You've just expressed what I feel almost every day when I'm in City Park. It truly is a wonderful place.
ReplyDeleteI hope you can attend the County Fair at City Park on June 3 from 6-9. It's an old fashioned fair that the City Park Alliance is organizing.
Hope to see you soon Emily! You sound really grounded. Acceptance is the key to everything today and every day!
Karen
Karen,
ReplyDeleteIt's so funny that you comment on this, because I think about you every time that I'm in City Park! We're practically neighbors: my apartment is right next to East and across the park from you. It's comforting to me to think about you and Eli in your little house across the lake.
I hope all is well! Passport to India is today. I'm bummed that I'm not there!