Invisibly Yours

Yesterday morning, a few minutes before 6AM,I arrived at Pan Pacific Park for my morning walk. I was surprised to see that the early birds were already out and about. It being so early, I thought I’d be a little invisible but luckily I wasn’t alone.

As I went about my walk, I thought about Oprah’s words a few days earlier. She said, “The worst thing you can do to another is to make them feel invisible.” I wondered about how I had made others feel invisible. How I had been made to feel invisible? What a great way to start my morning!

A few days ago I wrote about my lack of eye contact and realized that in doing so I make others feel invisible. I close myself off to the world around me and I don't honor the lifespirit.

While watching Oprah’s Lifeclass, Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison says, “That the greatest gift we can give to our kids is to show them the joy in our eyes when seeing them.” Click! I remembered I had seen this show many years ago and though I hadn’t remembered where I had gotten this little seed of love, it was beautiful to hear her words again. I don’t have children and I don’t plan on having kids, but I thought, “What if… I had joy in my eyes with as many people as possible?’ Over the years, I have made the greatest of efforts, but now, hearing her words, I was reminded to keep this idea even closer to me.

Working in a customer service position, I thought about how I could improve on my visibility with everyone who entered the store. Though I know it’s not possible to be so open with every single person, I can at least make the effort to have that joy in my eyes as much as possible.

The piece here is titled, “Invisible.” Today’s post inspires it. Along with being an artist, I am a writer using a word as art. I also thought about the green screen so often used in the movies. That little green screen makes so many more things visible.

Roland Barthes says, “A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.”

I found this quote interesting. When we look at a photograph, what’s the ‘IT’ that we see? Do we see ourselves? Do we simply take our own impression of it, or do we get a glimpse of what someone else saw, but for a second on earth? Did the artist/ photographer make something invisible, visible? What if we stopped to look at our life in the same manner? Will we see one another more clearly? It’s about going beyond what we see and keeping our ‘heart-space’ open to ourselves and to the magic everywhere. I can focus on the world around me, but seeing YOU is more important. When I see you, I see me. I see GOD. And life feels so much more alive!

The Challenge: go out into the world aware of how we make one another feel visible. We exist, therefore, we are!

Have a most fantastical weekend!