Today… my little mood module… felt like a roller coaster. Up one minute and down the next.
It was reminiscent to the feeling you get before biting into an Esther Price chocolate. You don’t know what the filling is… but you are extremely excited for the prospect of a Vanilla Butter Cream. And in an instant… you realize you have landed the Chocolate Covered Brazil Nut. And your heart sinks like the Holy Submarine.
I was trying hard not to be irritable today. But it Mr. Irascible kept knocking at my forehead door.
And you know… all things told… today was quite fun. All along the way… I felt loved and blessed.
We did lots of great nature watching…. visited a friend up in the north… picked up a really cool old camera…. fixed lots of delicious food… worked around the house… and had one heck of a cookout tonight with the family. But Peevish Polly kept trying to sneak out… and play.
Tonight when it was all said and done, I still felt a case of the Crankies coming on.
Holy Smokes I hope it isn’t hormonal.
But then…… THEN there was the sky. An hour earlier… the sky was gray and solid. It looked sad too. But the heavens opened up. The rain fell like tears from a Soap Opera Diva. It poured. It splashed. It washed away.
And when it stopped, the sky became filled with the colors a the spectrum…. like a big bag of Skittles. It was filled with light and beauty.
Oh yes. There is something about looking up into the vastness, and the power of the sky… the infinite… the unending possibilities that await us. The majesty in that color.
Oh… to breathe deep and let it all just be… exactly as it should be.
That is where the peace is… I think. That is where those ups and downs…. seem to even out. When we let ourselves just be. In this place, and time… exactly as it should.
Sure enough. The peace was with me. And it felt good. Except …. of course…. for the fact that I had a powerful craving for a bag of Skittles.
“Enlightenment is not a goal to be attained, it is a state-of-being to be regained.” ― Kim Chestney,
“Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.” ― Gerald G. Jampolsky,