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Amazed

 

Amazed

Even when we're lost there is a pattern, discoverable, discernible, mysterious.

Are we being led thru that pattern, or are we creating that pattern?

How can we know where we're supposed to go if we are supposed to go anywhere.

Maybe it's all just happening and we are not responsible for twists, turns, and new lessons to learn.



Amazed - mixed media collage by Douglas Brent Smith, 1998, from Journal #33, Life In Progress.

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