thirst

“Does it really matter out of what glass you drink the water, so long as that water is able to quench your thirst?”

~J. Krishnamurti

 

A short quote with a silly image, but I liked noticing the way it came to be. Over the past few days I’ve been rereading from Krishnamurti, a most wonderful teacher and human being, who asserted that “truth is a pathless land”. Being immersed in his words once again managed to refresh the image I view of myself, which can’t help but also alter how I see everything outside myself. It felt as if the Spring inside of me had finally arrived after a particularly cold and bleak winter. (This purely metaphorical living in the south.)

As a result of this I felt inspired yesterday morning to photograph one of the true signs of spring in Florida: the profuse display of azaleas in bloom. I’m not really one to photograph flowers, so was concentrating intently on how to go about doing this in somewhat of an artful way when I heard the faint sound of water gently moving behind me. I turned to see my cat helping himself to a drink from the pool. I don’t know why, but I’ve always been intrigued by the delicate and focused way that cats drink. I find it elegant and oddly calming somehow.

Since I was becoming bored with my sorry attempts at floral photography, it was easy to turn my camera to the cat instead. After quickly changing the settings for shooting in the opposite direction of where I had been, I took two shots before my feline subject sauntered off the scene, looking disgusted at the invasion of his privacy. I sat there in the sun for awhile watching the ripples of water slowly getting larger and less defined, enjoying the morning, and thinking of how I’d gone outdoors to photograph the blooms of spring, but had my thirst quenched by something altogether different than I’d planned.

And that is how a picture of my cat and the words of Krishnamurti came to be joined on this page.

~Cynthia

“The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.”
~J. Krishnamurti