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Breathing: it takes up every moment. Yet occasionally, moments completely take our breath away. In quarantine, I have deliberately taken moments away from my phone, away from the "momentous" upswings and downticks of social media. And maybe like me, these moments have taught you something you might not have realized otherwise: how precious our moments really are. There don't have to be fireworks. There don't have to be strung lights, or even other people. When is the last time an ordinary moment took your breath away?
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Throughout my time in OUR quarantine season (remember, we are "in this together"), I have been having what I will call, "transcendent moments" in nature, when I take notice of something I had not previously. I see something differently. To contrast against Belle from 1991's Beauty in the Beast, "there is something there that was[-] there before." I just hadn't paused to notice. Right in my own backyard, hidden in plain sight, in the comfort and familiar surroundings of my local neighborhood, I recognize and appreciate beauty in a way I seemed to have previously missed. It is like Psalm 19- the world around you speaks and roars to life. Yet it was no louder than it was before. That is why I love this photo- it sums up my transcendent moments well.
To paraphrase a line from Black Panther I could not track down, [we've] been here all along- reposed in plain sight, yet no one took notice or even suspected more. How grateful I am for these memorable one-line defined moments. What a difference they have made. What thoughts they have stirred. While circumstances definitely encouraged me, and probably you, to shift perspective and see the world differently- how often do we underappreciate natural aesthetics like the one shown above? As we reemerge and enter a new season, how many times have we skipped the one we are already in? Sometimes, it is not about the content changing; it's all about the angle.
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