Today I will be silent. Silence from my social media outlets. Quiet from phone calls and answering email messages. Absent from google searches and celebrity media fanfare. After these words I am typing reach you, I will be carefully planning my hours of the day to be filled with love, care and honor. Today I am dedicating thought and meditation to what this day in particular means to me. To all of us as Americans, yes. But also to the whole of the human race. The spirit realm as well. Far beyond the here and now. This morning is much different than a morning thirteen years ago. We all have our stories and recount the feelings and memories of those moments. Today, from where I sit, the wind blows a welcomed crisp coolness through our open windows. My curtains are dancing along the furniture in front of them and the swaying trees lining the peaceful streets are reminding me that there is beautiful life out there.
Today is a day like many others. Children will go off to school. Warm coffee will be sipped. Favorite music will be played. Plans will be made. Commutes to work. Groceries bought. Babies born.
Planes will be boarded.
Fear is inevitable. If anyone tells you differently they are most likely in a state of fear themselves. Fear of the unknown. It can be as simple as that. It is when we allow fear to govern over our lives and our hearts, choosing for us who we will be and how we will continue on, that we must take pause. I have many joys in my life that free me from a constant state of fearfulness. Blessings I do not want to take for granted. We continue to live.
Tomorrow i will wake up earlier. I will sit at a table with my love and whisper while our little girl sleeps soundly in her lovely warm bed. We will talk about the day or last nights dreams or how good the coffee tastes from the old fashioned french press. We will wrap a sweater around our arms because the Fall is entering the kitchen mornings now. We will light a sweet smelling candle in the bedroom and admire the newly painted walls of our bathroom (again), because we truly do love it! The simplicity of life sometimes is difficult to find. You need to slow down to hear it speak. My dear sweet Maxy knows this well. She could teach the world a few things. My urges to roam are dwindling lately. I feel the shift within myself, craving the simplicity of home and family and this small yet significant quilt we are becoming enveloped inside. And i am not minding it one bit. I want to take all that is an extension of me: my family, the safety of our home, the beauty in our modest surroundings...and slide one arm along the edge grabbing hold of the stitches, while folding the rest around us like a cocoon.
Today is a day of remembrance. Today is a day of reflection. Today is also another day to live. Use wisdom when choosing the pattern of your life. Call upon faith often and love even more. Be brave in your heart while humbly carrying out your days. I wish you all a beautiful day and many, many simpler tomorrows.
Love & Light
*a note about the picture: I sat waiting for the perfect moment when the breeze kicked the sheers over the bed and into the air. After a while I decided to just lay on the bed and enjoy the fresh air for a moment. As soon as I relaxed, in came the most effortless gust of wind blowing the curtain high above the bed and swirling around in a "picture perfect" scene. Such is life. I missed capturing that instance with my camera. Im learning though, that you can not sit and wait for "perfection" and ideal beauty to happen. Here is the tricky part, you MUST live life while acknowledging all the photo worthy moments that happen along the way.
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