As we ran adventuring through the parks Anadi and I passed a table tennis competition – both players were focused and engaged while cars zoomed all around.
Marble Arch rose above them …
Police in cars, and some more in groups on foot gathered there too…. We made up the two were unrelated…. But who knows?
It was like running through a scene in a dream with seemingly unrelated connected events all happening at once…
Life…!
Further on we encountered a group of people congregating by a pushbike with a big poster stuck onto it heralded a meeting about the politics of freedom of speech… We stopped to watch a bit and enquire as to what was happening, but they were unforthcoming about their plans…
On we ran.
Big white tents were being erected in Horse guards parade and big vans were parked there too… Large cameras stood dormant, covered with plastic.
We asked the lady on the gate what was happening…
‘They’re filming an event to celebrate VJ Day … It will go out on August 15th’ – she told us. We chatted with her awhile and told her about the events in Hyde Park… ‘You’re running’? she asked; ‘Well, we’re on an outing really’, I replied…
‘With time to stop and chat to people like you’ – Anadi laughed…‘And time for a coffee break too’, I added…
Fortnum and masons doors were open; the interior beauteous to behold… We stood in the doorway awhile gazing at the sumptuous fare set in its luxurious ornate world…
The woman on duty at the entrance invited us to go in and take a proper look, but in shorts and vest we said we were a bit sweaty and not really dressed for it!
So on we ran
To Sloane Square.
Where we sat for awhile and I made a little video, remembering times gone by, sitting right here…
It never happened
Just a story now
And I am the same
But oh so different
Time that doesn’t exist has leant me the opportunity to reflect and clear and shift and return to my true self, and to always allow time in this perceived real world to be with just me….
And let go further of the me
That doesn’t exist…
This world where everything we engage in is a chimera in comparison to the truth of who we are…
Meditation
Our own space
Our own silence
To experience who we truly are
To be a light unto ourself
Alone