Inspirational Short Story, Female Fantasy Art, Relaxing Music

Only people who have joyfully accepted themselves

can take all the risks and responsibilities

of being themselves.

-- John Powell

Inspirational Short Story, Female Fantasy Art, Relaxing Music

If we have ever gone to school with a black eye, we know how embarrassing it can be. We feel self-conscious and ill at ease. Friends come up to us one after another to ask how we got it.

We may want to stay away from people until the eye is better.

All of us have things about ourselves we have a hard time accepting. It doesn't have to be as unusual as a black eye.

We may think we're too big, too little, too slow, not good readers, not good looking enough, or not popular enough.

We may need to talk about these things with someone else, so these bits of ourselves we don't accept won't limit our freedom to grow.

By talking to another, we may find those traits aren't noticed by anyone but ourselves.

We may also find that what we once thought of as weak points can be turned to strengths.

Believe that life is worth living,

and your belief will help create the fact.

-- William James

Before Orville and Wilbur Wright ever flew the first airplane at Kitty Hawk, they believed flight was possible.

They had a picture of it in their minds.

The first step in creating anything is to be able to picture it in our minds. If we can picture it as a possibility, we can work to make it happen.

When we were small, we dreamed a thousand dreams about what could happen in our lives. Anything, even magical things, seemed like they could happen, and our world was full of visions.

That part of us that believes wonderful, magical things can happen is still in us.

It may have been beaten down for a while, but it is still there waiting to help us seek the wonderful, lovely, and good things in life.

I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields

that it kisses them so gently.

-- Lewis Carroll

In different times and places, clouds can produce snowflakes, raindrops, or even hailstones.

Each one seems to have its own purpose and mood as it falls from the sky.

The snowflake is the lightest of these, and so it falls slowly and softly. Rainfall can be soft or hard. It sometimes feels angry, almost cleansing.

No matter how thick the snowfall is, it is still soft. We can rarely hear it land.

It covers the world in a peaceful white. If we look closely, we can see that each small snowflake is unique.

Like the snowflakes, each of us has a unique design.

Perhaps what we can learn from the snowflakes is how to gently touch the lives and growing things around us.

Times of anger and rain are necessary, but a soft snowfall brings peace to all humanity.

10/26/2024

Dividers from Gran Gran's Graphics (dead link 07/28/2011)

( I had the pleasure of meeting Carl and his wife Michelle at the Tempe Art Festival in December 2001.

It was cool to see some of Carl's original artwork and to purchase prints of Radiance and Impudence. )

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