It was a full day.
Good night and sweet dreams.
Evening surrender
Being pushed vs being led
Below is today’s Momentum Dash inspiration:
And this was the quote:
“Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.”
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Both hit home for me right now.
First, because I’ve been feeling that some inner shifts are trying to happen (“trust the process”).
Secondly, because now that I’m feeling well and fully able to step back into life’s fray, I’m noticing how quickly I fall back into the imbalanced pattern of responding to external pressures (“…pushed by my problems”) and not taking the time to listen for inner guidance (“led by my dreams”).
Something to ponder.
Discovering my high school self
I’m intrigued to realize what a head-in-the-clouds dreamer I was in high school!
The closest thing to practical on this list of goals is the last one: move out after graduation. At least that had some bearing on real life.
Well, I did manage to attend some little bit of the Monterey Jazz Festival (although I don’t remember a single thing about it). And I did go to Europe with a jazz band when I was seventeen.
But the Montreux Jazz Festival (in Geneva, Switzerland)?!? Buy a Porsche (or/and an Austin Healy)?!? Visit the South Pacific?!? Go to the Olympics (mind you, only as a spectator)?!?
I’m pretty sure that at this point in my life I didn’t have a job, and wasn’t even looking for one.
Grounded in life’s practicalities I was not. 🤦♀️
Crickets, stars, and dreams
This post isn’t as random as it seems. You see, a really noisy cricket managed to get in the house tonight and he was (still is, actually) chirping so loudly that I found it difficult to concentrate on my blog post.
So I decided he would be the topic of tonight’s post. I googled “crickets,” in search of an image, but wasn’t drawn to the scientific kind of photographs.
Then I remembered Jiminy Cricket and my blog post was complete! I always loved this song as a little girl…and discovered that I love it just as much today!
Such beautiful lyrics…and sung with such feeling.
When You Wish Upon a Star
When you wish upon a star
Makes no difference who you are
Anything your heart desires
Will come to you.
If your heart is in your dream
No request is too extreme
When you wish upon a star
As dreamers do.
Fate is kind
She brings to those who love
The sweet fulfillment of
Their secret longing.
Like a bolt out of the blue
Faith steps in and sees you through
When you wish upon a star
Your dreams come true.