Right now...

Right now there is a wonderful orange tone to the light outside. The sun is setting and up above the storm clouds, dark and angry are rolling in. Below the dark clouds are light, fluffy, tendrils of clouds just going along their way here and there. The contrast is beautiful. It’s becoming quite blustery. Pine needles and an occasional leaf or feather is dancing in the wind. Spiraling, falling, rising oblivious to the clouds.

It makes deidre think of life. Some are the little pieces dancing through the air. Some are the happy clouds floating above oblivious. Others are like the storm clouds, dark and affecting everything around them. Still more of us are like the trees. We’ve found our place. We’re deep rooted and strong. We know our place and we are happy to be there watching and waiting while everyone else flits by.

Sometimes the rain comes down and dampens us from the storm clouds, occasionally the little pieces become caught in our branches. They stay for a while, then move on. Still we, in our groves stay right where we are, content, reaching higher toward the sky.

deidre’s glad to be a part of the grove with others near her, others like her who understand her and accept her for what she is. Others who are reaching above and growing just as she it. Thank you all.