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Roads, trails, pathways____. This is how we see “it”, that we are traveling into life!

Roads are filled with other people, and so they may feel crowded. Trails too can feel crowded as you meet groups or couples____ others ahead of you____ when your only on “your way”____ its disappointing when you end up stopping and joining these others. Life gets intertwined.

Pathways are smaller, intimate and often less traveled____ unique in that we are likely to travel these by ourselves. We see them sometimes as we walk with someone____ and then return to them to test just our own footsteps there. Pathways beckon. We can leave that path and make a new, never traveled path, where its our steps that bend the grass and stones are kicked aside or ground deep into soften soil. We hold the branches back and let them swing back into place so to go further around, making the first bend in the trail to head towards what we see. A boulder is a place mark a place to sit and look around. It’s a place to find your footsteps once again. The there it is a place so beautiful, so full of life, a place to come and sit. Where the world is quiet, gentle and nothing else matters but the self.

It’s like being in the middle of an intersection and many cars have zoomed by from all four corners at once! It goes on forever! Yet they have all missed you! Your safe! No one’s there and your now alone! You move from the middle of things and off onto the side, and there is a path where no one is but you. You pat yourself all over amazed your unscathed! Glad that you are! Its ok to be alone!

It would seem roads are taken to get to tails and pathways. Pathways being a departure. Often, they’re a beginning _____ we like that they are a bit hidden from view, the fact there is always a bend ahead_____ We run across pathways and think I will come back to this! Pathways make you feel curious, they feel private. They can be relished once you have tried one and know you can return or take another ahead. Sometimes they bring you back. Pathways are a thrill! A bit scary but you want to see if you can do it! To take someone along is just not the same, there is too much chatter and things are missed, what is beautiful goes unseen, what is unique goes unseen, the adventure goes unmet and its disappointing in the end. It’s nice to have that quiet, it’s nice to learn how to become. It’s nice to stop when you like, it’s nice to grow roots deeply in the ground, and its nice to hear the whispers of the wind and fall in love with trees and sky. It’s nice to fall in love with life over, and over again!

Roads are faster ways to get from A to Z. Trails are meant to challenge us. But Paths are meant to be leisurely. Even if the trip is in your mind.

I just followed my thoughts and let them come. I am thinking about “it: these days. It is something we all have. It encompasses many things. “It is! It was! It will be!” It seems to be something and nothing all at once. And here I am thinking of it! A label given to something because we do not know what exactly to call “it?”

Best wishes! May love and laughter find you.