Higher Ground

[About feeling stuck in negativity:]

You can climb incrementally up out of the hole where all looks dark and small, to the high ground where you can see in all directions.

It's not a direct quote, but this page can help with climbing up and out:
SandraDodd.com/gradualchange
photo by Holly Dodd

New Clouds

Recently, far from home,
I was looking at a "coffeetable book" of photos of clouds. The author had included contrails. Until that moment, I had always thought of them as pollution, messing up the sky. But Holly had no such aversion to them, and without knowing I had seen them bound up in a collection of images of beauty, she took this photo one day in Albuquerque.

Our children do not need to carry our negativity or our nervous fears. Clouds are temporary in any form, and behind them all is light.

photo by Holly Dodd