Shifting Seasons

 

                        Shifting Seasons

I was moved when I looked at the leafless tree. It seemed to be reaching up to embrace the sky. It will be like that through the winter months, allowing us to see its inner strength before it covers its bareness with beautiful greenery in Spring. 

It reminded me of our hopes that seem so barren in troublesome times, like the world is going through right now. We need to remember that we are strong underneath, that things change and that the world is flexible. If we can hold onto the understanding that life often shifts like the seasons, perhaps the beauty of humanity will come back into season.

 

Not So Ordinary

 

                                Not So Ordinary

The ordinary things that we see are easy to pass by. We take them for granted and move on to whatever is next. But maybe if we allow ourselves to look at things differently, we may notice something new about the usual.

I like to take a walk each day. It’s a simple exercise that gets me out of the house and helps me to see beyond my own walls. Most of the time I just follow the same routine and see the same things though every now and then I’m startled to see a different view of something ordinary.

On one of our trips, the woman who cleaned the rooms put out towels on our bed that looked like swans! It perked us up after a busy, tiring day and encouraged us to be present to what we were seeing.

 The ordinary can be calming because we don’t have to pay it any attention but viewing things in a new way can help us expand ourselves and have fun at the same time.

Artist Helgo Stentzel looks at things from a wonderfully wider perspective:

https://www.helgastentzel.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email