Making something out of nothing.....

Wants vs. Needs.

As I flew over the Pheonix area on my way to visit my family I chuckled to myself. Not more than 20 minutes earlier we had flown over one of the greatest natural spectacles known to humanity, the Grand Canyon (genius name by the way...). The raw beauty of the desert in its prime that had been created by the most basic of elements, water, wind and earth. As we traveled further south the city popped up suddenly out of the deep warm tones of the barren desert. The city grid was perfectly squared. The only organic presence, the very small trees, were systematically plotted along property lines and around houses. Even parks were perfectly lined thanks to the meticulous landscaping......

I chuckled because I thought about how this perfectly planned, lanscaped, manicured city held the beauty of a piece of pea gravel in comaprison to the brilliant gem that is the Grand Canyon. The beauty of the age we live in is that there is technology and intelligence in existence that can make just about any want we have into a reality. Want pizza at 1:00AM, sure, no problem. Want to buy something you can't really afford? That's what credit cards are for. Want to make a natrually non-habital place a booming metropolis? Done. But should we always be able to get what we want just becasue we know how? 'Cause lets face it, eating pizza at 1:00AM makes you fat, getting into debt is like asking to be in bondage and the reprecussions of trying to make a city out of a desert has resultd in my neices' doctor recommending they don't drink water from the tap beause of its high chemical levels.

This is nothing against the city of Pheonix or any other desert based area. The midewest has its share of ridiculousness. I mean lets be honest, outdoor shopping malls in Noblesville, IN, not what I'd call a necessity nor logical. It's just that, I don't think we know what it means to be satisfied no do we have the ability to linger in that feeling. I don't know what it feels like to be staisfied nor the ablity to linger in that feeling. There's always something more that we're looking for.....we want to make our wants our reality instead of focusing on our needs and living in the process of meeting those needs. We are living outside of the realm of needs and residing in the place of want, a place that is artificial and while it seems as though it holds the answers it instead leaves us, ironically enough, wanting.....

That's all, just an observation.

It's a good day when...

Today I was helping little Bella pull up her shorts after she used the potty. She looked up at me out of nowhere and said, "I love you, auntie." It melted my heart. I gently replied, "I love you, Bella." Kissed her on the head and sent her back to play. I consider that a good day.