Sometimes...

Sometimes I am strong, sometimes I'm not
Sometimes I cry when I'm happy, and sometimes when I am sad
Sometimes I love the questions, and sometimes they drive me nuts
Sometimes I have the answers, and sometimes I don't


Life is very Yin and Yang right now. So many happy- good things happening, and a few things happening with no solid answers. It is the way life goes and I am a firm believer that when something is going not the way I'd hoped, that means I need to have a heightened awareness. My Grandparents are getting older and having some difficulty and I find myself noticing more about them and the way they have lived and loved.

My family and I got together last night to discuss all that is going on. I am very thankful that I have such a wonderful, supportive family, who are all willing to take action and help out.


This picture is an old one but I thought it applied to what I have been feeling!


One of my favorite quotes!


I beg you…to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without ever noticing it, live your way into the answer… -


Rainer Maria Rilke

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