The Ceiling of Our Thoughts

I spent twenty minutes this morning just waiting for the kettle to boil. I stood in the kitchen, staring at the ceiling, tracing the cracks in the plaster that I usually ignore. It is funny how we spend our lives looking straight ahead, focused on the next task or the next room, rarely tilting our heads back to see what is actually above us. We walk through buildings we think we know, yet we are blind to the way the light hits a corner or how the beams meet in the dark. It made me wonder how much of the world I miss simply because I am too busy looking at the floor. There is a quiet, hidden geometry to our lives that only reveals itself when we stop moving forward and start looking up. What would change if we spent more time noticing the structures that hold us, rather than just the ground we walk upon? Is it possible that we are surrounded by beauty that is waiting for us to simply change our angle of view?

Jerry Caruthers has captured this feeling perfectly in his image titled Things Are Looking Up!. It reminds me that there is always something new to see if we just shift our perspective. What do you see when you finally decide to look up?