A Perfect Moment

Sometimes when you least expect it, you can experience a perfect moment. It can go by in a flash, but the feeling of peace can stay with you for a long time.
Last week, while walking to the bus one morning, it happened. All at once everything seemed to converge on this moment. It was a beautiful day, sunny and blue skies. It suddenly became quiet, not a car on the road, nor the sound of people anywhere. Then I saw him, the heron, flying towards me. He was beautiful, graceful, long and lithe. His thin legs stretched out behind him, and he effortlessly beat his wings and glided by. As if there was no effort required to fly.
And in that moment, it fed my soul peace. Then he was gone, the only reminder that he had been there, was the feeling he left me with. The feeling of a perfect moment.