Rising above

I don't know about your life...but mine seems to be filled with drama.  I am trying to just keep going with a smile on my face....but everywhere you turn....there it is.  It seems to be part of the human condition.  Something happens, someone has a bad reaction to it, someone tells someone else about it...Voila: Drama!  We are all such complicated and fragile beings....and I guess, as long as people have feelings...drama is always going to be part of the picture.

I am trying this year to turn my head upward toward the light.  I am trying to just deal with whatever drama there is and look past it to find something worthy of my time and attention.  There is a lot to despair of in this world...but there is also so much to rejoice in.  Disappointments are going to happen. Misunderstandings are going to happen.  People aren't always going to be there for you.  We need to take a deep breath and realize that it will all pass...and down the road, it just won't be that important.

I love hot air balloons...and this past July, I got my non-morning derriere out of bed and went to the walkway to see and take pictures of the balloon launch.  Never was my time so well spent.  Although as I was driving toward Poughkeepsie in the dark,  with my kids home still nestled in their beds, I began to wonder about my sanity.  But it is really such a beautiful experience...to watch them and hear them...  It is actually way up there on my bucket list to take a ride in one.  This has surprised quite a few of my friends, because I am in no way a daredevil....and they are always surprised at how fervently I want to go up in a balloon.  Someday...

I am not sure what draws me to the balloons...maybe it is the fact that they rise up...and gently and peacefully glide far above the madding crowd, running around so busily concentrating on the drama of the day, that they sometimes forget to look up or around at all that is beautiful in the world.  Maybe I am drawn to the simplicity...the quiet of being above all the annoying details.

But tomorrow, I will think about the balloons...that rise to a higher place, a higher understanding about what is important in this life...and I, too, will rise above the annoying details, the senseless drama...and keep in my heart that quiet place that sees what is truly important in life.

"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple"

~ Dr. Seuss