Come Walk With Me

We decided to head out to Peachland today to take a stroll by the creek and then by the lake. November 1st. I think there's absolutely nothing wrong with this picture (or pictures). I can live with this. Let me know what you think?

Of course, I always have to get right down in there closer to the action. Creeks have always been the ideal place for me. This creek. This is life. This is movement. This is cleansing. This is growth - movement forward. This is real.

This is what I want. Not much really. A log cabin that will keep me warm, nature all around, my books, my pen, my journal, my computer for material things. Enough money to eat, pay the bills, visit my kids. Andree to share my life with. It's not very complicated really. It's pretty simple yet so far away except on days like today.

And off to walk I go - thoughts drifting. I've come to a place of sanity. A place to restore my soul. The sun beaming down on me, energizing me, the air cool on my face, making me feel alive.

There is so much to be grateful for in the beauty that surrounds me. These trees, they stand so proud and tall. They show up in all their majesty, without hiding, without pretense, without a need for perfection. They just are who they are.

I can learn from them. I too need to show up as who I am - everywhere - not just in the places that are comfortable or in ways that are comfortable, but everywhere in everything, especially in ways that are important to me, like in my writing.

I can't try to be someone else with my words. These flowers. They are who they are.

The daisies don't pretend to be roses and the roses don't pretend to be daisies. They don't need to wake up and live in the truth of who they are. They already are.


I must lay down any prejuidices against myself that says that I'm not enough. That I'm broken, incomplete.

I am totally complete. Just like these flowers are. All I have to do is to chip away at what blocks me from being the complete person I already am.

I already am what I am meant to be. It's all there inside me. All I have to do is to allow it to come through whatever that may be today. Whether it's that I'm feeling full like this tree.

Or barren and naked like this one. The trunk, the core of who I am, that remains the same.

There is nothing that can block me from being me except myself. I have lots to be grateful for in my life.

Look at that huge moon coming up in the night sky. How can I not be filled with love. Love is the first most powerful force in the universe.

And gratitude is the next most powerful force. I am grateful - for the love in my heart and for the day I just had along with the opportunity to share it with others through these pictures and my words.

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