Day 1269: Balance

My balanced intention, this morning, is to create a  blog post with balance.

I wish to balance

• light and dark,
• courage and fear,
• joy and sadness,
• reality and dreams,
• rest and movement,
• routine and spontaneity,
• solutions and problems,
• contentment and exploration,
• active and passive,
• structure and play,
• caring and not caring,
• my needs and the needs of others,
• yin and yang,
• beginner’s mind and hard-won wisdom,
• thoughts and feelings,
• facts and intuition,
• social connections and  time alone,
• health and illness,
• the past and the future,
• the here and the now,
• talking and listening,
• awareness and distraction,
• the new and the familiar,
• engagement and escape,
• sense and nonsense,
• patience and impatience,
• humor and seriousness,
• the important and the trivial,
• work and time off,
• sweet and sour,
• trust and caution,
• trying and letting go,
• noise and silence,
• sun and clouds,
• day and night,
• comfort and discomfort,
• hot and cold,
• so on and etc.

That’s a lot to balance!  Let’s see if my photos from yesterday will help.

What would you choose to balance in your life?

Here‘s my favorite singing group — Take 6 —  in Paris,  balancing their beautiful voices in a song balancing smiles and sadness:

I’m balancing that performance of “Smile” with a differently balanced one from Take 6’s live album Tonight (balancing here on YouTube):

I hope you balance my thoughts and feelings about balance  with yours, in a comment below.

I feel more balanced when I express gratitude.  Thanks to all those who helped me create this balanced and balancing post and to you — of course! — for the balance you bring, here and now.