Poetic views of the world

http://weliveyoung.blogspot.com/2011/11/alba-and-world-part-two-new-zealand-and.html

Her life seems so beautiful, it reads like a fairy tale.

Although she as an amazing life traveling and doing what she loves, and an amazing talent for photography, the real magic for me is her perspective on things. She has a beautiful way of looking at things, of not only remembering but finding and appreciating the beautiful things in life. Her blog reminds me of the advice of art therapist Cathy Hyland Moon, who offers budding art therapists the advice to look at their lives in a poetic, artistic sense and the ways that this view can open you up to being in-tune with the world in a new way. I always wondered what that "poetic view" of the world could be, and in reading that blog I think I'm starting to understand a little more what that might mean for me. I want to look at the world with her eyes. I want to see the beauty, not just the practical, the common place, the unpleasant. I love the simple things, but I want to remember them more- I want to remember them at the times when I start feeling sorry for myself for not getting out more, traveling more, experiencing more. This girl's life is a life I'd like to experience at some point. Not forever because traveling exhausts me and I am lucky enough to have too many people here to leave them all behind in a whirlwind of constant travel. But I would like to venture to other parts of the world someday. Until then, I'd like to poetically view the environment I live in now, I'd like to see the beauty in spending long days on campus with my cohorts, of moving to a new room that I've never seen on a chilly winter morning, of a late night studying art therapy philosophies, of long and crowded greyhound rides home to see my husband. Maybe I'll reflect on those things more in my blog. Of course, the practical side of me sees it as a chance to work on my writing skills at the same time . . . it wouldn't be me if I didn't have that thought.