Silence

Silence is often where I hear the true tones of Life sounding; the ones that sound and call me forward into the life I am Meant to live, the life I Need to live. 

Daring for New Horizons

Will I dare to set sail from all I've ever known? Will I leave the place I was taught to call home?

Prisons

We don't have to keep living in the prisons our past made for us. 

When a name change

is just the tip of the iceberg.

What happened on your month away?
What was it like?
What did you experience?

When will you tell us more?

Why 'Alex'?
What made you choose Alex?


And the soon to come ones:
Why did you change your whole name?

Happy Solstice!

Happy Solstice Everyone!!!

As the daylight now begins to lengthen, collection of seconds by collection of seconds, I smile. The light is returning to the World again, preparing us to emerge out of the dark for another trip around the Sun.

It is no mistake to celebrate so many bringers of Light in this darkest of seasons! And as the tide of daylight turns once again toward longer moments of bright and sunny, we ride the building momentum of Joy, Happiness, and Merriment into a New Year, a fresh layer, a virgin exploration of the World.

May the Solstice Fox (Thank you, Sue!! All credit to you!) bring each of us many gifts and blessings as we spread the cheer and good news that once again the light of the day is lengthening!

Wild Blessings to Everyone!!

Yours Truly and in Joy,
Alex

"The Paradoxicality of That"

                                                           The Paradoxicality of That

Miles and Miles
Years and Years
of Desert to Walk

There is land here that no human foot
     has ever touched.
There is walkable land here that no human foot
     has ever touched,
     nor animal.

You are so small, so insignificant

And yet,

You are the most significant thing
     In this time and place.

And the paradoxicality of that
     is what puzzles you the most.


That
     and the spiders with their webs
            Drifting by on the evening breeze;
                  the deafening silence through which
                     even the raven in flight does not make a
                        Peep.



© Alex Mitchell

Slow Re-emergence: It is Fall after all...

Song of the Wave:

The Anti-Shadow

It is inherent that
Waves bring Light.
It is inherent --
It being
the Nature of the
Wave
rather --

the Nature
is to
Be a Wave
and
Bring The Light.

The Light comes
Through
to the
Depths
the
Floor
the
Ground Beneath
the
Body
of Water.

Waves allow the
Light to be
Seen
to be
Observed
to be
Experienced
  not just omnipresently shining through.


Rather
Experienced,
Visible as an
Anti-shadow

Moving through the
Depths
across the
Floor
along the
Ground Beneath
the
Body
of Water.

Waves are the
Anti-shadow
the
Bringers
of
Light.

Always in motion
Always a wave
Always at least two things at Once
     A wave and
     An Anti-shadow, a Bringer of The Light.




© Alex Mitchell