10 SHADES

10 shades of color

bluish greenish zigzagging

a door...a portal

one color covers the canvas, followed by another, and another, until there are 10 shades of color in all, overlapping, blending, integrating...unknown to me until the end of the sketching appeared a door...eventually we will step through the portal into another world.

as we live each decade of our lives, we can think of them as colors, marking the places, peoples, ideas, and things with our energy, our particular shade of color...these shades overlap with each decade, combining to eventually form (unknown to us in the living of each decade) a doorway, a portal that at death, we transition through to another world/dimension/state of being.

i did not start out intentionally trying to create a doorway, yet it came to be in time through the shading of different overlapping colors, in the living of a life...what colors are you drawn to, what kind of life are you creating, is there a doorway/portal to "something else" awaiting you...be grateful for the time you have now, love as many people as you can, do as much good as you can...

practice

center your attention on 1 person sometime in the next 8 hours and ask them how they're doing on a scale of 0-10 (best)...then follow up by asking what you can do to help them inch that number up 1 point higher (if they've maxed out at 10, ask them what you can do to help them maintain such a high level of positivity/well-being)...then engage in the action to make their life just a "bit better."