Perspective

 Have you ever tried lying down on the ground - dirt, grassy, rocky - and looking up at the sky? Maybe a mat under your body would help, but that view…that perspective. 

Looking at the world from the level of your height when standing or walking, looking at it from car seat height or bus height is a very different experience from lying down and looking up. 

The sky suddenly expands and fills the field of your vision. The surroundings, be these buildings or trees, shrink in relation to the sky. What’s going on in the sky becomes more important. There are wisps of clouds streaking by on the left here. They stand out against a particularly clear blue sky this evening. Here’s a dragonfly fluttering above enjoying the dusk. Oh! There’s a second one coasting lazily behind. And a third.

The branches of the tree nearby loom over wanting to close in on the space above you.

There’s no wild movement gazing straight into the sky. A bird or two zoom by and the dragonflies loop around whirring gently. The scene invites a unique stillness in your being. There’s nothing to do, nowhere to go. Beyond that blue sky, beyond the atmosphere of the planet, we’re speeding through the universe. But here, within this microcosm - this contained environment - the mind stills with the static sky.