intention

photo- taken in Maine, f-7, 1/80 sec 12mm lens

Journey with me, if you may, through a doorway and into the cavern deep into my mind. The door on the right . I have a room I must show you, I’m very excited ,can’t you tell? Here, this way, I come here often. Look around and tell me what you see. First you will notice that the room is very pleasant and comfortable. See that easy chair next to the window, it’s my favorite, I spend a great deal of time there. Do you see those baskets? they are all filled with seeds. There are seeds of all sorts. I must tell you about them; let’s start with this basket, I have worked on it often, holding it and pondering its possibilities. These seeds are what I will plant if I win the lottery, yes, 10 million or more, than I shall plant these seeds. This one is for those poor people we always read about in foreign countries, I shall send them some money. Imagine what they could do with that, go ahead and imagine, enjoy your imagination, I do all the time. And this seed is my big donation to the church, and this one is for Uncle Phil for his operation, are you feeling the excitement yet?

Now come over here and look at this basket. This one is one of my favorite baskets; these seed are how happy my friend will be to see me. You see, I heard that my friend Joan has multiple sclerosis I haven’t seen her in years and she doesn’t really live that for away. We were very close; she has done so much for me and my family. I can’t wait to see her. But I’ve been real busy lately at work, as soon as I have time, I’m going to go and visit her. It will be real good to see her, I’m sure I can cheer her up; I have so much to tell her.

And before we leave I must show you this basket. These seeds are for my Grandmother, you see, her washing machine doesn’t work. I’m very good at that sort of thing; I know exactly what is wrong with it. I’ve even thought about where I can get the parts. She told me about it last Christmas, gosh, that’s almost a year ago. I’ve just been busy at work. But I’ve been giving it a lot of thought though. There are a lot of things around her place that need fixing, and I’m real good at fixing things around the house.

That’s why I brought you here, I love this place. I spend a lot of time here. I’ve got so many baskets of seed, I could just spend days telling you about them. I guess you can see I’m a pretty compassionate guy. I just wonder where other people spend there time when no one sees them, I can only imagine.

Do you want to hear something real funny? I was taking a walk the other day and saw this man with a very small pouch of seeds, nothing like my big room filled with baskets and baskets of seeds. He was digging in this hard soil, patiently cultivating the soil. He planted one seed, just one, and than watered it. I was somewhat amused by this odd behavior and returned to watch his foolishness, each day he would water and take care of this seed. I just laughed one seed from a very small pouch. I have so many baskets and so many seed, why I bet I could plant a whole orchard if I want to.

I’m glad I’m not like that man, wasting his time with so little. Don't you AGREE?