Trust

As a bird about to soar,
you have to know you can fly before you leave the ground
Like a train heading up a mountain,
you have to know you can make it before you get to the top
Such as a artist looks at a white space,
you have to know you can make beauty from a empty canvas



The trust we lay in ourself can be a powerful canon to launch us to wherever we like. If we can set that foundation of belief, all that leaves is something to set the spark.
The first door we walk through is opened with our owns hands.

The Gift

In my farthest dreams and nearest sight, I seek to give a gift to others, for now this is what comes to my mind.

My happiness is life
This happiness is my passion
Passion is my tool
Tools are my gift to others,
writing is the box,
talking is the lid,
imagination is the bow.
When they can open it, they will find a present
The present that is themselves
The present that is happiness
The present that is life

Transition metal

   Life contains change, in fact it is something we can always rely on, from the falling of the leaves to the hair on our head. Change is in our blood, in the air, change is now. How we cope with and prepare for change can be a defining character for many people and something I always try to be aware of. Change is everywhere.
   Mercury is cool, it is a transition metal. What this means is that it is a sort of metal, sort of nonmetal; it is a element of both traits. Believe it or not, we become mercury at some points in our lives. Everyone has times where change occurs in our most basic aspects of life. Like mercury, we feel neither here nor there, metal nor nonmetal; a transition occurs in our lives. We grow up, grow old and grow out of many things we saw as staples in our lives. We move from house to house, and sometimes from passion to passion. Our jobs will not be the same from when we are 16 to 36, and our parents will not always make us dinner.
   Being in a transition can be daunting to say the least. What we thought we could hold in our hands now slips through our grasp. We may go back to behavior that we were once used to, only to find it is no longer there, yet see the new pieces in our lives are just as unreliable. As creatures of habits, this can be very disheartening for many of us, including myself. During these transition states, be it a lost job or new city, we can take refuge in ourselves. For no matter what change happens, stability can be found in ourselves. If the world was turned into a giant forest and every building destroyed, we would not be destroyed along with them, we could still find a new way to live even in the most extreme wave of change. Fortunately, no change this abrupt will happen in our lifetimes, but the analogy still sticks.
   I found myself in a transition state several days ago while moving into a new house. When I felt anxious or stressed I found a escape through breathing deeply, reading, centering myself. When I could see it was not me that was changing but my habitat, the heat of instability evaporated. The strength of finding inner peace can shine through any tough time, any dark cloud. For as much as things will change, we will always have we.

Raindrops are fallin' on my head

Imagine a small pond.

It's raining.

Notice the ripples that spread across its surface with ease.

Notice how each drop only covers a small circle, not one ripple covers the whole pond.

It is said the little things that make life worth living, something I have come to adopt whole heartedly. In the rippling pond, one drop of water will not touch both shores, but every splash is connected. A raindrop on one end will touch every other ripple as a bee pollinates a field of flowers.

Imagine a small pond.

It's raining. 

You notice all the ripples sliding through each other on the surface.

Now imagine if the pond was a body of actions instead a body of water.

It can be easy to see how two raindrops hit the surface and their ripples overlap each other. For example if you run a red light and get pulled over, the cause of your frustration can easily be seen. But like the ripples on opposite ends of the pond, many actions and their corresponding feelings have roots farther across the surface. Each of our actions has a cause and a consequence, a single ripple may be small, but link them together and the pond is covered. This is one way I find happiness in each day. I don't rely on a special event or moment to make me happy, I make every moment special, each one unique. If we can learn to appreciate each ripple we make, we will see we are swimming in a very happy pond.

Give me some sunshine

There can a lot to be said about the sun. It can be said its shine gives us the energy needed to run the planet. It can be said it keeps us warm as we rotate in its orbit. It can be said the sun gives us nourishment for the soul.
We plant seeds, water them and let the sun take care of the rest. Its rays come down and bring to life the hope we planted in the earth. We trust that its energy will be there day in and day out, for without the sun, our seeds would never grow.
Just as we trust the sun, trust in ourselves can bring growth and nourishment to our souls. Just as we trust the energy to come down and grow our plants, if we trust ourselves and do what we want, with the highest of loyalties and bravest of leaps, our happiness will blossom.
For if we live in our own sunshine, a trust builds that cannot be broken. The more we become aware of ourselves and act just the way we want, the negativity and doubt that once filled us is now just a whisper of the soul.