Look — the universe is not chaos.
It is ordered beneath appearance.
The void —
a dark, voluminous fullness —
listens before it speaks.
It pulses with life, with potential,
and makes no effort to explain itself.
The quantum realm has much to teach
that way.
In the silence where thought evaporates,
where equations loosen their grip
and drift back into starlight,
only impressions remain.
Only sensation.
Here, reason insists there should be lack —
and yet there is fullness.
A humming quiet.
A sufficiency that does not argue
for its own existence.
God withdraws
so creation may proceed.
No one can be led here.
Nothing meaningful is borrowed.
Trust is the crossing.
It moves in both directions.
And if we can hold this
without flinching,
without presumption,
we may discover —
not something new —
but what it is to be
entirely, unmistakably,
ourselves.
Upolu Pt. ~ bj 2025
What a gorgeous rainbow of color in this image! 🤩
(I tweaked it a bit in Photoshop. It was too dark.) But these colors exist in this beautiful atmosphere all the freaking time. I just love being back here where the landscape and skyscape surround me with every shade of saturated beauty all the time. Your ‘rainbow colors’ makes sense, in that I always feel like I’m living inside a rainbow! Of course where you live is beautiful as well! I had 34 years of bliss in that state of Maine. Loving it the entire time. 🌺♥️
Love this! Such powerful words speaking of authenticity, of clarity beneath the chaos and beauty to be found. Beautiful image to go with it.
Mahalo, Miriam! I appreciate your thoughts. 🙏♥️