Meri's Musings

I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details  we all hinge our lives on. Rita Dove "Unfurling" © 2010 Meri Arnett-Kremian I love the way our lives unfold, detail by detail until we are fully in flower. - Meri (Rita Dove served as Poet Laureate  of the United States  and Consultant to the Library of Congress from 1993 to 1995  and as Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia from 2004 to 2006). 

Being in the world, eyes wide open, the magic is in the details. Subtle gradations in light and shadow, in texture, in sheen. Take it in. (And to take in all the lovely mosaics posted in today's meme, visit hostess Mary at L ittle Red House. )

Delwyn of "A Hazy Moon" and I had a conversation this past weekend about details and how hard it is to establish a consistent balance of happiness when you haven't fallen in love with the little stuff (especially if you make a career out of dissatisfaction with the little stuff). When you get right down to it, life amounts to a whole lot of details added together. Individual moments, strung on the threads of our lives, like pearls. We experience delight and dismay moment by moment, reacting to what's here and now, being present to what's occurring unless we're all wadded up in what happened in the past or what we fear might befall us in the future. Love hinges on a whole lot of details, too: seeing some and celebrating them; ignoring others. To maintain equanimity in life, despite all the ups and downs, requires a deep knowing that all things pass, regardless of how desperately we want to hang on, no matter how intense our fear that things will never chang...