A Christmas Perspective

Something may be taking place...right before you, in your life and your perception may be completely distorted or miscued. We live our lives through our own eyes and experiences. Of course!

To step out of your own box...your own shoes for a moment? is this possible in your realm???

I watch in awe as this painter, in a matter of a couple of minutes creates this...it's worth your time and reflection.

Beautiful & Amazing

What looks to be splatters of paint on a canvas, when turned upside down, becomes an entirely different picture altogether.

This morning I picked up my notebook that i have written goals, and journaled in over the last 10 years. I have written in it intermittenly, most of my journal is kept privately on my computer. I read through the entries and gained some rather important insight as to my growth. I am both humbled and proud of who i have become through the triumphs and the defeats of my life.

The insights i gained about my life and who i have evolved to be, because of my experiences brings me both elation as well as heart ache. Today i work diligently on living for today, in the moment, enjoying what i have, loving who is in my life and what i can do to serve and love those around me. Life is full and simple...and if i choose empty and complicated. It depends on the way i flip it.

This year i have not bought a single gift for Christmas, nor will i receive any either, and this is exactly as it should be. Each year is different, and love grows through experience, humility and perspective.

I wish you the happiest of holidays~

Christmas Light Braggin' Right

 Competition seems to happen in ALL neighborhoods.

I'm not very impressed with show off's and bragger's. 

I AM however, 

crazy about humorous folks with NO EGO...

sometimes it's hard to tell which is which.

And sometimes, not.

Voyage of Discovery

 

High Winds on the Yellow Brick Road

Last Thursday December 1, 2011 was an unusual day for Utahn's, particularly in Davis County. As I drove to and from the University of Utah I was thinking, "could I be in Kansas or better yet could I wake up in Oz?" But naaaa, no yellow brick roads around here, just another day of dodging shrapnel from the latest wind storm. This one was a bad one.

I-15 littered with semi-trucks on their sides.

Greasy side up!

Wrong place. Wrong time. Definitely.

So do you consider yourself lucky, unlucky, blessed, better, worse, privileged, ahhh, not so much if you were the owner of this car. How about the truck driver's who got the protected spots under the bridges? Lucky? Were they smart or did they get there first, maybe both.

As i tossed about in my low profile car quite confident, although shaky, i still felt safe. Then i thought about the vulnerability of these unsuspecting truck drivers innocently passing through this stretch of highway, only to be tipped completely over or halted for hours. The line of high profile trucks stopped along the side of the freeway was nearly comical. Do they still use CB's these days? "HEY good buddy, you got your ears on? Cuz there's a whole lotta greasy side up..."

As a child one of the scariest movies I watched repeatedly was the Wizard of Oz. I was terrified by the Wicked Witch, even though I knew the outcome, I still had that anxious and scared feeling throughout the movie. It has taken me a life time, as i now close in on 50 to face my fears, step up to all my responsibilities, and weather out the storms that come when least expected. I suppose I have always had this strength, I just now earned enough life lessons to get my red ruby slippers.

These things skip through my mind...are some born wearing red ruby slippers? Does this entitle them to privileges above others? Do some never get any slippers at all, possibly because they never even considered they were good enough to wear slippers, let alone red ruby ones? What entitles or differentiates one soul from another? I may have to travel to Oz to figure that one completely out. 

One thing I do know, Dorothy was lucky to have Toto...