My Super Power

Positive thinking alone won't get you anywhere; but I've heard it will get you significantly further than negative thinking. And still I hold on to my Super Power. Yes, I do have a Super Power. I am able to look into the future and positively see, crystal clear, the undesireable things I fear will happen.  As Super Powers go this one is enormously useless except for creating anxiety. None of what I feared happened today again. It was a very Merry Christmas.

Tree Up. Lights on. Stockings hung.

 One Christmas season past, I saw this 9 year old kid looking up at me with a round face and tight lipped smile. In years to come we'd be picking out Christmas trees to cut and drag through the snow. Decorating these trees required a tall later and agility. I cherish those memories of building a bond.

It's been three Seasons since our last tree.  Today she selected a tree with me, strapped it to the roof of her car, brought it home, and strung the lights.  Christmas home again. Joy to the world. Grateful for my place in this life. 

It All Seemed So Limitless

From atop the shoulders of my pride, in the days before the day, it all seemed so limitless. The horizon without end was brilliant blue and cloudless. Flat ground dotted with gentle hills were impediments to no one. You can dream, can't you?

Yes. You can dream. You can dream as far as belief in the possibility of all things can take you. It was when I quit believing in happily ever after that the dream of possibility faded to the doubt of probable.

I can't ride on pride or ego for long.   To walk with humility requires acceptance of what is and is not. In acceptance, the view is limited. There are limits and the horizon is within reach. Clouds turn from blue to gray. It all goes away in the end. There are no happy endings. Life is with limits.