Beauty all around us ~ Each in its own time ~

This is one of my beautiful

Hibiscus

Fall 2010

In the morning darkness I sit and think of the many and passionate comments of the last couple of days; HOPING with all that I am

that parents across the world who visit here will feel empowered by the words of not only me,

BUT

those who have had similar experiences,

the words of those who lived through

LABELS

One told me that labels work quite well on soups!

Now that I think of it, I think she is absolutely right.

Just imagine, having your taste buds all set for some hot Tomato soup on a fall evening,

getting the pot, the can, your tummy ready...

and opening up

a can of "mushroom cream soup"

LABELLED WRONGLY

Now that would be enough to ruin a perfectly good evening!

And make ya doubt the very company that affixed that label too; making ya just be hesitant to open the next can (for fear of worms or something).

Indeed there is beauty all around us;

in the wandering eyes and googlie eyes of our children, our peers and our Elders.

Those sometimes brief encounters that allow us to look deeply into the eyes and see the soul often occurring at times of deep trust and understanding of

"I will do no harm child"

Rare and special times they are, most kids run wide open from the time they learn to walk I think, powered by something... maybe by spirit and the wind and a zest for life itself.

Like a wild pony feeling the wind in their hair and on their faces, loving to make sounds and feel the freedom that life has bestowed upon them.

We've often watched with wonder at Olivia and Kamryn ... wishing we could bottle their energy, knowing we would be richer than rich, truer than true with the advertisement by just a video of them running and hollering and playing.

Funny

they sleep just as hard as they play

imagine that!

I know some adults that would give about anything for that raw energy that doesn't come from Dunkin Donut or from sugar buzzzes!!!

Notice that form

the

FOCUS

Kids focus when they want to

when they are having fun

when they are passionate

when the feel safe

and

so it is good!

Spoke to an exhausted Kamryn last night, but he still had passion and excitement in that tired little voice as he let me know:

HE made the

"winning tackle of his football game allowing his team to win their game"

Way to go Kamryn #10 of the little Bobcats in Radford Va!!!

Also heard that Mom was running up and down the sidelines like a madwoman, screaming her head off in excitement; forgetting that she was to stay off that healing "shin bone of her leg"

as she "rooted for our boy"

Yelling, hollering, running the sidelines like

Coach COB

and probably is "hoarse" and with aching leg today!

Ah, but it is an exciting football season for those kids in Radford VA, and each week, here I sit in FL

with my "Bobcat" shirt on hollering right along, sure they can hear me in their hearts!

I would offer you this today:

When you are given an opinion, an assessment, a thought:

you can take it, mull it over, keep what is worth keeping and then

throw the rest away!

BUT

Try to not

REACT

or

PANIC

or

accept blindly what someone tells you

YOU

are the the one who controls your life

Beauty

is within

around

and beneath all of us

Look within

and

STAND WITH AMAZING GRACE

As Maya Angelou

once said, and I believe

"when someone shows you who they are, believe them"

AND

then move on, letting your knowledge be your truth.

Kamryn's hand print

UNIQUE AND MOST REMARKABLE

NONE OTHER LIKE IT IN THE WORLD

and for that, I give thanks!

And So It IS!

"Grown people can learn from little children for the hearts of children are pure, therefore the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss"

~ Black Elk ~

Wherever you are today

I wish you enough

Blessings and thoughts on the wind from my home to yours.

The fire is burning and its embers are hot; sage and cedar being sent on the winds to all who gather on this safe page our circle of prayer continues to the many mentioned here; you remember who you are.

Walk In Beauty,

DRSES

That is the HOPE in Healing Heartaches

http://www.drsherryeshowalter.com/