Pondering

The stillness around me is so heavy I can only ponder.  Anything else feels too heavy, too hard. 

Looking at my home I see simplicity in all its grandeur, a few nice things that reflect what I love.  That makes me think about simplicity and love. 

There are two ways to simplify something.  One is to take it down to its barest essence.  One definition,  One shade.  One way. 

Love simplified has definitions, borders, finite meanings that make it easier to understand and replicate and end.   Love of a spouse.  Love of a child.  Love of god and country and work.  We work for it, strive for it, live and die for it.  It is just that -- an it -- a thing -- an action -- small and limited by the need to make it personal and unique and somehow mine.

Love expanded simply is.  So simple it is barely comprehensible.

Love expanded is an ocean whose waves wash eternally outward, bringing one gift after another into view even as it carries others out of sight.  Simpler than simple because it is everything and nothing.  I can't hug it or hold it in my hand.  I can't claim it, or give it away.  I can't measure it or even really describe it.

I may never truly comprehend it, but I am always immersed in it.

Now that is something to ponder!