Orange Horizons

I returned yesterday from Vegas. I spent 5 days with my mother and sister. We have not been on a trip together for 13 years. Much has happened in our family during this time particularly a lot of healing. My brother was killed 14 years ago yesterday. Our family learned many lessons about life from death. Acceptance, unconditional love, humility, patience, submissiveness. Not that we don't have our faults, ego trips, disagreements and childish acts, because we do! And we laugh in spite of ourselves.

I have learned that sometimes it is important to get over yourself. We do have a tendency to make things bigger than they are. Truth is, most things are just 'small stuff'. We often times make a big deal out of things when it just is not necessary. Life is perspective. When you lose someone you love life's perspective changes. Things have little value. The simple experiences becomes more meaningful. Relationships become paramount.

As we drove to and from Salt Lake to Vegas we not only talked of intimate things and feelings in our lives, we really related and understood as women. It was a priceless experience for all of us.

I have no doubt that each time we see the beautiful orange horizons as we drive through the canyons between St. George and Vegas we will feel a great circle of a celestial sphere whose plane passes through the center of the earth and is parallel to another orange horizon.