Blue

I got a pleasant surprise in the mail today. Wonderful Shelly sent me an excerpt from a book called Letters to My Son. Here is my favorite part:

"I watch you," she said. "I see the loneliness in your eyes. I watch your heart running away. You are like a lot of people. When life is too hard they try to look over the difficulty into the future. Or they long for the happiness of the past. Time is their enemy. The day they are living is their enemy. They want to die to the moment. They live only for the future or the past. But that is wrong.

"I have a simple rule," she continued. "Seek always the blue moment."

She sat down beside me. "The blue moment can happen any time or any place. It is a moment when you are truly alive to the world around you. It can be a moment of love or a moment of terror. You will know it only in memory...

"...the blue moments string together like pearls to make up your life. It is up to you to find them. It is up to you to make them. It is up to you to bring them alive in others."

It's a really beautiful day. I think I'll go to the beach now.