Just Another Evening

I had an all day meeting in downtown Silver Spring followed by teaching two yoga classes.  The meeting location was just a block away from the yoga studio, so I had planned to stay downtown, teach, and then walk home.   Thinking about it a bit more, I decided to walk home after the meeting ended at 5pm, eat a little, and then drive back for the yoga classes, as the last one ended after 9 pm.

It took a few blocks of walking to settle into the feel of the evening, and then I began to notice the clouds in the sky lit by the setting sun.  I stopped to watch them for just a bit, then turned to walk on home.  Then I spied the moon - just a little more than half lit - high in the deep blue evening sky, and three vultures soaring in a circle, wings lit by the sunlight.

Just another evening, but so much to take in.  Another block of walking, and the birds were gone off to the east, and the light on the clouds had dramatically changed.  That's life.  Always changing, always full, there to be appreciated, or ignored.  The richness of our life experience is really up to us, and whether we are able to be present for it.