Yesterday, I had the most incredible time taking my lip balms to 2 potential venders. When I was finished, I had some time to spare. I was on Front Street downtown Wilmington. It is such a wonderful place to be surrounded by such life: people on bicycles, musicians on the street corner, and being so close to the water. A store called Manifest caught my eye, enough to cross the street and go in. I saw a piece of art that stuck a cord deep within me. It was simply a quote that read:
"Kiss your life. Accept it, just as it is. Today. Now. So that those moments of happiness you're waiting for don't pass you by."
And it was a sweet, blissful afternoon, not even getting soaked in the rain dampened my spirits.
Sweet Ping desperately trying to sell me fudge, shoes, or anything. Kind Liane talking with me.
But then the evening began to fall and loneliness tried to creep in, blinding me to the fact that I was at the beach with my little one. Thankfully I realized the spell it was trying to cast on me before I let it overtake me. Then again today a darkness tried to surround me and make me forget all the good that surrounds me. And just when I felt lost and alone, a warm kindness of a stranger and the generosity of family friends fall upon me without them even knowing that I needed it at that very moment.
So "muchos besos" (as my Spanish family would say) to my life then, now, and in the future. But mostly to the now.
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