friday quotation

Sunday something

Thanks to some friends and family and books and other written sources, I've been thinking a lot about letting go of things.  Whether it's old, hurtful memories or old fantasies.  Or old habits that aren't serving me well.  Or old clothes that I never wear.  In fact, I was thinking about this on a run this weekend and as I approached a corner, I saw this little boy watching his dad work.  I loved that he was playing and joking with his dad that he was going to step in the freshly laid cement and that his dad just shook his head...trusting that each leap would, in fact, take his son OVER and not INTO the cement he was smoothing.  (He's being oddly still in this picture!)  But I also loved that the little boy was wearing a St. Andrew's t-shirt.  He has it on backwards.  It's too big for him.  I'm not sure he knows what it stands for.  But maybe he does.  Maybe he's a member of our SAS family - a young one.  (I don't think so because I looked through our pictorial directory and didn't see him.  But maybe he has an older sibling at SAS.)  Or maybe someone decided that they could let go of this shirt...and it found its way into the hands of someone who could use it more.  Maybe if we would just let things out of our hands our loads would be lighter and others' lives would be improved. And the stuff that no one needs, well, maybe the universe just takes care of those things for us. 

friday quotation

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. 
~ Winnie the Pooh

Sunday something

I'm not sure whether it was the sermon at church about unity or the music at yoga taking us through the flowing motions and Zoe reminding us that we have to create a space in our heart so that when that prayer for peace is answered there's room for the peace or the lemonade stand run by The Girls' School of Austin where I got the most delicious glass of homemade blackberry-grapefruit lemonade... But the world felt incredibly close on Sunday.  As if good really was just around the corner, possible around any bend. In spite of the wars in the world.  In spite of the stress brought on by - well, you name it, whatever it is that is adding stress to your life.  In spite of the ailing environment and the ways in which we continue to hurt it.  Yes, in these little moments the world felt like it might actually survive all of us and our craziness.  And surely if the world can survive that then we can, too. Or at least the little girls who proudly and excitedly gave me my my glass of lemonade made me believe so.