Some days everything feels off. If life is a movie – and moving along pretty well! – you’ve found yourself in the wrong cinema on your way back from the snack bar! All the things on which you pinned some hope seem as hopeless as can be. Those days when in a quiet private misery. But you have this way of making it all okay. Of taking the worries away. The things that weigh. You have a way. Of letting it go. You know the truth. You own the now! Those buried in future, those reeling in past, burst with release in finding you now! This place that’s real. The sun shines. Again. You live under such stress. Your mind volleying countless thoughts, so many not serving your soul, your joy. But, you always find a way. You’re the best, and better by the moment! You choose joy, and you light the path. For others. Your smile, it sometimes brings a tear. You’re that beautiful. All the time! You cut out the noise and do what you need to do. “Oh, if only they knew me!” you think, when everyone wishes for just that! Oh, to know you! The sight of you feels like coming home. A trip to the moon in a balloon. Coming home to the sun. You shine. You’re solid. You’re salt of the earth. You pepper the air. With your conversation. And no matter what role in the play you assume, or what costume you wear, the spotlight finds its way to you. Because, for it, too, it feels like coming home. And you shine. You always shine! You’re as strong as they come, and your gentleness moves. Hearts. Moods. Worries replaced with warmth. You inspire others to the point they see flaws inside they wouldn’t have seen otherwise, and they pluck them, and you’ve made someone better. For having known you. Knowing you’re there. It brings a calm to things. A stillness to the storm. You’re what beauty is. Beauty is you. And you play with the definition the way great painters play with light. You’re double diamonds shaped like blackberries unfolding out of avocado leaves! Seen in a dream! It’s all about the avocados! Spiky leaves rising into the air and unfolding. An eyebrow raise, a knowing smile, and a life begins. You are mischief. You are joy. You affect the heart, and effect the change. Where wind is converted to lightning, it’s the place you can be found on a summer’s day! In the middle of the day. You’re lightning in the middle of a June night, lighting up, warming the darkness. A soundness. You know the dark, but choose the light because you’re made of it! Light. Lightness. It’s funny how fast the feeling in the room can change when you’re in it. If you’re down, you know it won’t be for long. You don’t brag. Or show off. And yet you come out on top. You don’t pine, and yet you’re as tall as the pines. No need to be over the top, you get to the bottom of things. Of hearts. And you’re loved from there. From the bottom of a heart. Treasured. How could you not be? You fill the holes with soundness made of grace. Your compassion. Com-passion. With passion. Of passion. You come with passion installed. Ignited. And a kind of confused expression of a loving soul’s innocence when someone purports to be something you didn’t expect. A nudging from your heart shows in your face, saying, “You can do better than that.” And they do. Subtle, and filled with love. Better. You’re a gift that way. In every way. You can be all things. You are all things. You shine off your magical qualities when in these places, and the places where you are not long to be where you are. You take it away. You still the storms. You are in this world, but you move around the deeper ones, too. In the group of kids picking on someone, you pick someone up, off the ground, the cobalt blue who looks at you with a furtive wink. “Meet me after school,” and you laugh and play and roll around the ground like the fox and the hound. With a look and a nod and you’re found. You turn darkness to light. You do it all the time. Nothing can get to you today! Because you live in the now. You own it. It’s home. And you light the way. For others. All the time. Just look at you shine!! ❤️