“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air…” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Over the past few months I have been living vicariously through others' blogs. Wishing that I could write as well as them, wishing I had the creativity they did, wishing that I could do more then I was doing...
Then a wonderful thing happened, a friend was over for dinner and was telling us about the plans he had to go dancing that night. One offhanded comment about not being dancing in years and I found myself on the dance floor.. having the Time Of My Life! I looked out at the sea of people, shimmying, sweaty, squished, but most of all Smiling! And I ran into an old friend... the girl I used to be. The girl who loved to dance and have a good time; the girl who loved and loved with all her heart; the girl with friends; the girl who smiled - often - for no other reason then she was in the moment....
Ah yes, Hello old friend - Dear sweet innocent old friend! I got home and wept tears of joy - and the next day I wrote poetry again for the first time since High School.
Something had been woken up inside of me - and I could not contain it anymore, nor do I plan to contain it again.
And as the days have passed I continue to feel that my journey has just begun - and not just for me, but for women everywhere. I hope we can take this journey together - I hope that you will be able to find your passions and more importantly hold on to them. I firmly believe this makes us better women, sisters, daughters, mothers, wives and lovers.
Take my hand and let's soar!
“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favour in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” ~Henry David Thoreau
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