However precarious this rock may look, it has found its place in the world as wind and rain have eroded its base of support. It’s not going anywhere anytime soon.
What in your life feels balanced and at home, even as the storms rage around you?
May Day
“Tra-la, it’s May, the lusty month of May,” sings Guinevere in the musical Camelot. In much of the Northern Hemisphere May is a time of bees buzzing, of plants flinging pollen with wild abandon, of life burgeoning in all directions.
What fills you with lust for life?
Opening
Magnolias bloom in a vast profusion, curling open petals to the sun, exhaling sweetness into the warmth of the day.
What opens your heart and allows you bloom?
Downhill
Does the phrase “It’s all downhill from here” mean “It all gets worse from here” or “From here everything gets easier”? I suppose it depends on where the coast downhill will land you, and you can never be sure of that until you have finally arrived.
What in your life is on a downhill coast?
Slowly Born
“A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
When have you awakened to a stranger within yourself?