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| Even the Humblest of Shelters can have a Great View - 11th Street Bridge - Washington, DC |
Today, on my morning walk, it occurred to me while standing underneath the 11th Street Bridge over the Anacostia River that even the most humble of shelters could sometimes, even often, have a great view.
This kind of realization forces me ever closer to the seemingly inevitable conclusion that I've spent the greater part of the last four decades chasing the wrong kind of wealth. Seriously...if I'd stayed inside the house that I have to work so hard to pay the rent, watching television, or playing one of the endlessly prolific games for entertainment, I'd have never been exposed to the beauty that I saw this morning.
Apart from walking, about the only way I would have seen this kind of vista would have been to find myself homeless huddled underneath the bridge to get out of the wind for a little bit of comfort.
I beginning to believe I've been doing it wrong. I don't know what tomorrow will reveal, but I hope this life lessons keep coming, and I hope to have the presence to recognize them when the universe puts them squarely in my path.
