September's Reflections

During September, I always get excited because it means the fall is coming.
I love the changing colors of the leaves, the cooler weather, and the upcoming Halloween season. It is also a time for reflection. Autumn for me is a time to become more serious, to set aside the frivolities of summer and roll up my sleeves and get to work, especially with writing.

Along with this more somber, yet joyful spirit, I also take time to reflect on the tragedy of September 11th and take a moment of silence to honor our lost loved ones that day. Although we lost many lives that day, the spirit and love those citizens brought to the world endures and lives on through the blood of their families, children, and friends. Courage is brought out in our greatest need and it did not fail us that day. The best of us is reflected in the love we have for each other and for humanity as a whole. United we stand.

So whenever I feel that things might be better, I look around and see those I love, and I know that no, it could not get any better than this. It is a beautiful world, after all.

Beauty Peeking Between the Looking Glass

We are a skipping stone, our love throws a ripple in the universe. We will know ourselves reflected in the eyes of another and soon we shall each see beauty beneath the sea foam, running in the currents of our veins and pouring forth into the world. Beauty peeks between the lavender shadows of twilight beneath the trees.  

All the world is beautiful, sometimes we just need to look in another person's looking glass to see the world with new eyes.

Remember to look.