here and now

as i sit near the ocean
listening to the white noise hum of the
small waves crashing near me
and the infinity pool behind me
trickle into the overflow I feel very fortunate
to be here now. As many of you know
I have little materially but I have so much
in many other ways! Being here is what i have
and in many ways it is what we all have. Being
here in the now and being present is the way
or so many of us to manage the pain or the
harsh situation we find ourselves in.

Materially now i can say that life is
much easier than being in the cold north
and the reality around me is what folk think
is the answer but talking to an unhappy wealthy
englishman i met last night whilst watching some football
i realised that we bring the weather with us and
paradise is not a place but a state of being
which can exist where ever we are and whatever we
are doing in our lives. In some ways that seems
easy for me to say as I am here by the pool
but I like many have had my fair share of pain and
have grown through that……