After a rough morning of William being in one of his moods, I ditched everyone at the house and went to the creek. I've been feeling emotionally brittle since I heard the news about Kelsie, and it makes dealing with everything else a lot harder. So I spent a while at the water by myself. It is amazing how consistently going outdoors alone helps my heart.
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Reflecting.
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Low water in summer.
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Mimosa flowers, known for helping with grief and sadness.
It is hard not to smile just looking at the fluffy pink blooms.
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My not-feeling-awesome selfie. Just keepin' it real.
This too shall pass.
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Later in the day I got an amazing birthday package in the mail from my mom, and among many delights within was a Buddhist magazine, Lion's Roar, with this quote written by Pema Chodron: "When we feel fear, when we feel discomfort of any kind, it can connect us at the heart with all the other people who are feeling fear and discomfort." Think of how much potential connection there is right now with all the fear and discomfort our world is going through! That's a different way of looking at things, and I've been rolling that thought around in my mind since I read it. I think there is a lot of connection going on right now between people uniting to battle the pandemic and for the cause of racial justice, and if we could do more of it, more conscientiously, it could be so powerful.
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