And…

“Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.” – Thomas Wentworth Higginson

We insist on either/or, right/left, this/that. Yet life is often not found in extremes, in checkboxes, in clear-cut answers immediately apparent. It’s hidden in the “ands.” Struggle and joy. Disappointment and hope. Light and shadow.

Woven brilliantly in contrast, contradictions, disappointments, messiness, imperfection, acceptance, denial, irreverence, awe, complexity, simplicity, on the surface and in deep waters. An essay rather than multiple choice. Each of us our own author.

Allow some “ands” in to see the same landscape in a new way. Be cracked open to let light in to grow something new in your heart. And…

“To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become fully present to a deeper truth – not a truth from your head, but a truth from your heart; not a truth from your ego, but a truth from your highest source.” – Debbie Ford