Weekword- now

Week WORD- 'Now'

This is a tricky one for an image...

I would continuously have to freeze time in stills and choose one to represent 'now',

but now is fleeting so how can I do that?

Maybe a photograph of a Dandelion with its seeds blowing in the wind,

or a clock with no hands,

or and single grain of sand in an hourglass

in suspended animation...

these are some of the visuals I'm getting

but what really comes to mind

is an excerpt from

Kahlil Gibran's ---The Prophet---

------ And an astronomer said, Master, what of Time?

And he answered:

You would measure time in the measureless

and the immeasurable.

You would adjust your conduct and even

direct the course of your spirit according to

hours and seasons.

Of time you would make a stream upon

whose bank you would sit and watch its

flowing.

Yet the timeless in you is aware of life's

timelessness,

And knows that yesterday is but today's

memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

And that which sings and contemplates

in you is still dwelling within the

bounds of that first moment which scattered

the stars into space.

Who among you does not feel that his

power to love is boundless?

And yet who does not feel that very love,

though boundless, encompassed within the

center of his being, and moving not from

love thought to love thought, nor from

love deeds to other love deeds?

And is not time even as love is, undivided

and spaceless?

But if in your thought you must measure

time into seasons, let each season encircle

all the other seasons,

And let today embrace the past with

remembrance and the future with longing.--------

And so, these are the images that I choose to embrace,

season to season, past, future, 'NOW'

and 'whenever' have you~

Thank you to Hanna for the opportunity to reflect on this weekWORD. Visit her for more links to other interpretations of ---NOW.---