Bits and pieces...

I wondered yesterday as I was driving back from work on the Interstate 195 highway how many of the drivers speeding by noticed the gorgeous trees with their myriad colors? I wondered how many noticed the uniqueness of their short-lived beauty? It seemed like everybody was rushing somewhere, hurrying to reach a destination, oblivious to the remarkable paintings on the sides of the roads. And I wondered how we all go on with our hectic, fast-paced and intense lives without noticing the simple beauties and pleasures of nature. The foliage, in its vastness, is a modest reminder of what happiness can be in our life; natural, free and embracing. We search for it for years. We spend eternities dreaming about it, and we find it and, if we find it, in the simplest things of our universe, in the little places we never looked before, we walk away, unstirred. Just like these wonderful trees. They are there, standing tall in the middle of our world, reminding us of the beauty of life in all its col

Have you ever walked on frozen mud? I have, yesterday. And I thought how lucky I was to have a frozen shield protecting me from the sticky dirty element underneath. But as I confidently walked, I reminded myself that the mud is going to be there tomorrow, and the day after, and the day after that, frozen or not. It then hit me how this path was similar to our walks of life. We often repress our true feelings, issues, anger, opinions entangled with our dreams, goals and aspirations under a frozen layer of a mandated attitude. This is so common among women who are sensitive by nature and selfless by example. How often do we choose to avoid the “mud” in our lives because it is sticky and it might get messy and ugly and because we don’t have the support we essentially need to help us get out of it and clean it up? We inevitably resort to ignoring our honest feelings and we go on –reluctantly or not- looking away from the roots of our problems and obstacles and we so well cover it all up wi