Elemental Light

In preparing for the class on meditation and practices with light, I was out on the deck, enjoying a rare sunny moment amidst a week of rain, hail and thunderclouds.

Looking at the sunlight falling on the leaves, I noticed droplets of rainwater tenuously hanging from those small, shiny leaves. When the sunlight illuminated those droplets, they shown brighter than the most brilliantly cut diamonds, rarer still in their deepest beauty of simplicity and essence. Made even more exquisite because of the briefest moment in that state before falling.