There is never a promise of a tomorrow..only today.

It has been a sad week for my family.
My uncle passed away a few days ago.
Some of his last words were about
how things shouldn't be the way the are..
He was sad that this was the reason people were
finally coming to see him.
He was partially right, but I told him it was a good thing,
(even though, yes, it was sad that this is what brought us all together) and that we were indeed there at that moment for him.
I hope this gave him some comfort.
He was like a gentle giant...and his
soft heart was shining through in the end.
It makes me sad to write this..but I am doing it to remind me, and hopefully others, of how precious our families and friends are..and that we only have here and now to show them that we care.
There is never a promise of tomorrow..only today. While it may sound like a negative thought, I truly believe it is a wise and positive thought...so much good come of following that sentence.
There are times I have not done this, and it has not helped anyone only hurt others, and myself.
Yes, we are humans,
we are fallible...
But given the title of this post....the thought gives us reason to contemplate it's value.

So why shouldn't we live accordingly?

Pink Autumn

I feel like autumn if a treat for the senses..
the change in the air...a coolness to a breeze at night.
Different colors each day on my ride to work.
A deep longing to bake..at least for me!
There is something so cozy and pleasant about the fresh scent of
baked bread throughout the house...
It is a season that makes me appreciate everything the earth puts out
before me, and think how lucky I am to be able to experience it..
each color, each scent
another gift,
albeit fleeting..but they are each here
for today.

Pieces of Heaven

Pieces of heaven...

God lets a few of them fall here to earth

so they can breathe hope into our

far too cluttered

souls.

My newly familiar world

Down the path we go..
places we have seen so many times before..
but the same,
they are not.
The light,
the air, the sounds..
never fall exactly alike,
never repeat just the same
So it with each walk
that I see a familiar world
anew.

To cause reason to pause

The day a promise of a tomorrow was made a fairy tale...
when I stopped on a walk outside..
and heard absolutely nothing.
Tears of anger ran down my face,
I continued along the sidewalk,
as my soul quietly twisted inside,
searching for a way to
gain control,
I paused......
and
then began to
run.

Those words are so true. I remember going for a walk on the afternoon of 9/11/01. The streets were quiet, there was not a sound in the sky. I was so angry. Visions of people in business suits jumping off the towers filled my head...the last choice they would ever make. Mortality took on a new meaning that day, choices and control took on an even stronger meaning. Really, what do we have control over..I had to consider this. There is no promise of tomorrow, I realized that day, others had taken thousands of live's tomorrows away forever. All we really have is here and now.
Trying to find something I could have control over, when the whole nation was feeling without it, I began to run. It is my body, it is my mind, it is my soul....and I still had today.
How shameful for me, and disrespectful to those who had no choice that day, to not cherish the days that I do have....and to gain control over what I was able to.
I still run today...it gives me time to time to think, to clear my mind, and to appreciate the fact that I can choose to do just that.

So in honor of all the lives lost that day..
I continue to choose to make myself a stronger and kinder person..in my mind, body and soul.
There are many times I fail, and sometimes I flourish...
and I was keep doing this..as long as I have todays.

Emergence

Coming out
from within,
being
without
limits.
Embracing
a life...
your life...
or perchance another.


Credit to Faestock for the image of the women. I combined the womens image with my own images and LOT of work in photoshop, to create "Emergence"

The journey continued

All things dark...
she vowed to leave behind.