Bring your Matches

 

I love candles. The love the illumination. I love the scent. I love the aura it brings. I have two reserved spots for my candles in my home.  One is on a bookshelf under my TV and the other is on my breakfast bar.  

When they are lit or dormant, they fill a hole in my home space.  Of course, when they are lit, that is when they glow...that is when they are most alive.  But even in their sleep, they provide beauty and potential good fortune.  

You almost don't want to light it for fear of losing it.  But you do.  You enjoy that light albeit temporary. 

It's the same when people who we are close to, leave our life (either by death or departure).  People who are in our life will not always have an alive spirit but just knowing they are there, makes a world of difference. When they are gone, they leave a hole.  

Candles can always be replaced with new ones but it's not the same. 

When people close to us leave, there will always be others around...but it's not the same.

Remember the brilliance.  Remember the warmth.  And keep striking the match.  

Burn baby, burn.  

PS; I Feel the same way about fireplaces.  

Everybody Takes Authorship

 

When my wife was in college, she was sitting in a class when she heard gasps from her fellow students. 

She looked up to see the professor bleeding from his head.  

He calmly removed a handkerchief from his pocket, dabbed the blood on his forehead, and matter-of-factly exclaimed, "we all have our stories" and proceeded to go back to teaching the class as if nothing had happened. 

We all have our stories. 

When they say you can't judge a book by its cover, they are so on target. 

We meander through life and bump into people everywhere.  Some stay awhile and some are just passing through but all have their stories.  All have their demons.  All have their challenges. All have their things that trigger their respective lizard brains. For lack of a better term, "all have their crosses to bear." 

Robin Williams once said, "everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always." 

It's that simple.  We are all authors of our own books.  

Understand that some of our pens either bleed ink or simply run out. 

But, they are all worth reading. 

One page at a time.