I live in this world, In the midst of everyone else. Everyone who wastes their time worrying about what to wear, who to talk to, what to hear or what to tell. They focus their minds on popularity, politics, or money.

The world breathes around me. It speaks, teaches, and I learn. Others block their ears, for they do not know the knowledge that mother nature brings. They do not know that her whispers are soft, and one must listen with their full strength to gain her wisdom.

I stand in the midst of a million miracles. All going unnoticed by society. Each one missed by the bustling crowds and worrying minds. No one stops. No one looks. No one listens.

Wonder washes over me. I breathe, smile, and pick up my camera, my brush, my hands, and I capture it. I take hold of the beauty, and I oh so carefully place it on paper, canvas, screen, to be saved forever.

I capture the miracles, missed by the eyes of humans. I capture imagination, breaking invisible walls created by what is seen by eyes alone. But I see by mind. I peer through the cracks and crannies of my thoughts, searching for the perfect creation, the perfect oddity, the perfect wonder to introduce to the world, to allow the people to stop, and think.

To stop, and listen, learn, LIVE. For all they do is search for what they think is "life" when really it's right before their eyes. Right before their eyes, that see nothing. To truly live, one must open not only their eyes, but their minds, and the wonders and miracles of this beautiful universe will finally be at arms reach.

And all they have to do, is reach out, and grab it.