Reflections

Thank you everyone for the fantastic response to Wednesdays blip!

Today was a rest day for a weary team - and as the youngsters slept in I got a lot of admin work done and caught up with various projects. Around lunch time I was planning some diary events and realised with a start that today is the day we no longer mention. Obviously that family initiative has been successful, but the surprise of it all left me a little wistful so I set off for a walk round Loch Garten.

Sat on a rock looking at this tranquil view I reflected on how much calmer I am now. I know that buried deep down inside me somewhere there's a box wrapped in chains. Inside the box burn embers that will never go out, should never go out - but every day the chains I've wrapped around it are made stronger, each day it weighs a little less. It took me a long while to know that I'd be able to carry the box with me - longer to accept that it's part of me - and longer still  to know how to keep it closed, to understand that chains of love and happiness are the strongest we possess -  but sat on a rock in this peaceful place I can acknowledge it, I can look at it - but more importantly I can look away & see the beauty all around me - not just in the landscape - but in the people I know, this life I'm blessed to have.
And that's enough, more than enough.

& so to Philosophy Friday;
"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness"
Honore de Balzac