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Self for the Whole

We live in an amazing world. A wold that can make us feel so connected to everything else, the social networks that consume our lives, the convenience of texting and having the entire universe at our fingertips. What we fail to remember so often is that in this world of go go go fast pace, and convenience, we get lost and can feel so alone in a crowd. The things that we thought we once knew for sure are now so uncertain. The things we felt prepared for are now unprepareable. And the world can move so fast around us, and we can feel overwhelmed. So what do we do then? We have a few choices and some might be better than others. We can choose to panic, and curl up in a ball and wait for the chaos to pass. Because eventually it may pass, and be swept under the rug. We can face it, face the chaos head on and tackle it to the ground... And does it need to be tackled? Or we can step out of the world for a second, and focus on the self. We can step back into our own shoes and appreciate the st...

Trying Times

Sometimes the unexpected turns into the expected. And sometimes the positive life we lead is more difficult we challenge than we first thought. Did I bite off more than I could chew? My mouth is pretty full and that explains my absence from my blog. And I promise it it not with laziness is have traded writing. Rather the multitude of as much as possible brainstorming. Everyday I am thinking of something new. Trying, I mean doing, something new. I am learning the ropes of the tight wire I walk on called my life. And what is so great is that beneath my tight wire I have a huge blanket of support from family and friends. So when I fall, and in the last two months I have fallen, I get right back up again and start again. Sometimes I start back where I started and sometimes I have a detour route back to the place I fell. And I go back a minute, a second, an hour, or maybe more from that falling point to figure out what I can do better the next time. Because in life we are all going to fall....