I feel the season changing.
The subtle smell of new growth. The sun refusing to go easy into the night. The moon less eager to rush into the day. I just had my 47th birthday. I too feel less eager to close my eyes at night. I spent my birthday skiing in powder up to my knees. The day before it was bleak, grey, windy, cold and wet. On my birthday, the sun shined and the powder forced me to just lay back and enjoy. For those of you who don’t ski, it can be effortless if you just relax into it. When I decided to sit back and glide down the slope I began to notice the lakes in the distance, the hawks in the sky, the music in my head.
There are many challenges we as Americans young and old currently face. Most of us spend our days trying to put out one fire after another and then go through the rote tasks before we go back to sleep and do it all again like pre-programmed zombies. I know that it can feel like you are a salmon swimming upstream, trying to get to places that we need to be, but having to face serious challenges along the way. However, this is it. THIS IS IT.
If you have children and have to get them off to school and yourself off to work, take two minutes to watch their faces as they chew their toast with two missing teeth. They are cute. If you have a long drive in traffic, turn off the news and turn on some funny morning guys and laugh or put on pretty music and find something pleasing about the sky. If you’re really lucky you will pass someone picking their nose or arguing with themselves behind the wheel. Who knows maybe you will get a glimpse of a wildly cute dog tonguing the air from the back seat of a sedan. Like Julie Andrews sang, these are a few of my favorite things.
If you have money problems trust that it is temporary and that you will be o.k.. Give yourself three minutes to fret about it and understand that while today is cold and bleak, the seasons are changing. I promise that tomorrow the sun will shine, it inevitably does (even in Seattle). So, just relax and enjoy the glide.
LOVE SUSAN
