The thing that keeps coming to me today, is this.  Hidden Treasures.

Oh, who doesn’t love to find a hidden treasure?  That thing that gives you great cause for surprise.  The buried Pirates’ Gold.  The $50 bill that was in your dress jacket.  An egg with two yolks in it.

But most hidden treasures aren’t so hidden at all.  Most are in plain sight, if we take notice.

This morning, as we watched birds and drank coffee… we saw a squirrel in one of the trees in the meadow.  This little gal ( Okay…. well…., it  is a big fatty squirrel, in all honesty.  This thing sits in our trough, filled with deer corn, and eats and eats.  Like Liz Taylor after a divorce……..  this thing eats.  Little fist full after little fist full of deer corn.  Frankly,   I am surprised this thing could scamper anywhere, let alone to the top of a tree.  But here I have gotten off track.  Please forget that it is a big fatty squirrel, and think more along the lines of athletic, and graceful Skippy. )  Yes, this squirrel made its skillful way from one branch to the next, up, up, up, all the way to the top of the tree.   And once there, it seemed to just look around and bask in the glory of the morning.  After a few moments of “taking it all in” from the highest high in the wood, it turned around and made its way back down.  What a treasure this was to watch.  Yet another one of life’s hidden treasures in plain sight.

I think sometimes, we feel like the world gets hum-drum.  Perhaps…. that we are just numbers on a computer screen, or another person standing in line.  Yet that isn’t the case at all.  There are great and wonderful treasures in each day… if we care to find them.  The greatest treasures lie within ourselves.

You are completely and totally unique.  You are a  beautiful creature in your own way….  with many gifts, passions, abilities, and talents.  You have your own personality, and experience that only can be you. No one else can duplicate you.  No one else can live your life for you.

This is a treasure… our hidden treasures….. in plain sight.  Each one of us.
So whether you can sing like a lark, or paint beautiful landscapes, fix a carburetor, or bake killer brownies… it is your great talent.  Your gift.

So today…. perhaps…..  climb to the top of the very highest branch, and bask in the beauty of moment, the view, the accomplishment.

Yes.  You are completely special, singular, and distinct.  Unique.
We all are.  We truly are.   Unique together.  Hidden Treasures.  Everywhere.

“Our time here is magic! It’s the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It’s the only space.”  —  Ben Okri