V A S T .

I put my heart and soul into the photos I took in Jordan, really wanting to capture how very VAST and WIDE the spaces that make up our planet are.  Click to photos to view detail. 

 
These photos don't even do those thoughts justice.  But they capture some of how I was feeling.  There are miles and miles of space around us.  {And that is only what we SEE with our eyes.} 

What we don't see is the quantum space, the space that fills the space.  We are small my friends.  Very small.  Dust mite small. 

 
Historical events took place on the mountain below, and when we saw it- we were in awe {to say the least..."Oh my goodness!" awe!}

 
Does it feel like your house or apartment is too small?  Well....does it really matter? {If you are truly living, the size of your dwelling is irrelevant.}

 
No, I'd say nothing really matters.  LOVE is vast.  Perhaps that is the one thing that does matter.

So tell me, has travel to a foreign land ever challenged you to go outside of yourself, to let go of previously conceived notions?  Or are my own thoughts too naive or romantic for your taste?

If so, too bad. (You'll get over it.)

 
 xoxo

Comments

[Jenn*~]

love love love every letter and every visual of that post. xo

[Donna]

There were many times I felt small while in Jordan, but not in a negative way, more like a tiny piece in the mosaic, still an integral piece. I'm still digesting all the ways that being there has changed me and my thought processes.

[Swirly]

Travel does everything - opens me up, puts things in perspective, reminds me of how extraordinary this world is.

[Tara Bradford]

Vast open spaces is one of the things I find so compelling about Jordan. Maybe it's because I've spent most of my adult life living in cities, but I always find a different perspective; a new way of looking at the world around me, when I'm in a place that offers not only a richly diverse landscape, but an integral part of our history. I think travel changes people, perhaps subtly, but certainly in small ways they may not even realise. If nothing else, travel makes us realise we are more alike than we are different, no matter where on this planet we call home. xoxox

[Marilyn]

Travel does change us. It opens our eyes to the similarities among all people of the world. It opens us up and fills us with compassion and love and flexibility to love all man kind. I am thoroughly enjoying your pictures of Jordan.

[Dionna]

Yes. Going to Panama last summer and visiting children and families in little shacks - that stretched and changed me.