Magic – Fairy Dust
No matter how often I travel from one place to another - across a town or across an ocean – I continue to be fascinated that I can be I can be here and then quickly there. Last Thursday at this time I was on my way to Oklahoma City via a plane. My flight from Pittsburgh first took me to O-Hara Airport in Chicago. Once in Oklahoma City I was soon installed in the rental car which I would drive to Canton, Texas where my brother and his wife live. Saturday, I drove from Canton to the home of one of my sisters who lives near Sapulpa, Oklahoma. By Monday night I was back in my home here in Wheeling, WV. Yesterday I was in Pittsburgh most of the day and today I will be in my home office much of the day although. I was at the gym earlier and later will go to the local post office.
I have friends who travel often for their employer. Their travels may take them across town or someplace as far away as China.
I often wonder about the trail I leave in every place that I visit whether that be for an hour or for years. I am sure that I have left a trail at the gym this morning. I will also leave parts of myself with everyone I meet at places such as the post office. What will I leave? I will leave:
The possibilities are endless. Humans who travel in space sometimes leave objects on the far away planets they visit.
Here on this planet we now talk of the carbon footprint we are leaving each day.
If I am truthful I am often thinking of what others are leaving or not leaving me and not what I am leaving. I may be thinking “they” could have been nicer, more spiritual, more loving, less self-centered, more honest, less arrogant, more kind, or more considerate. I may be worried about how someone is going to treat me rather than focusing on how I want to treat them no matter they do or say or do not do or say.
The magic of travel –across a room, a city, a country, a continent or planets – is an opportunity to leave a footprint of love, strength, courage, hope, or just gratitude which I suppose is a part of love. I could think of travel as an opportunity to spread what some – especially children – might call fairy dust.
Today I will be more intentionally mindful of how what I am leaving in all the places and with all the people I visit. When I notice myself focusing on what others are leaving or not leaving, doing or not doing I will bring my focus back to what I am leaving. I know that when I do that I will always also pick up something positive which I will bring back to pass on to others. That may be courage, hope, a smile, joy, courage or fairy dust. I will attempt to not bring back mirrors of my darker side.
Written May 24, 2018
No matter how often I travel from one place to another - across a town or across an ocean – I continue to be fascinated that I can be I can be here and then quickly there. Last Thursday at this time I was on my way to Oklahoma City via a plane. My flight from Pittsburgh first took me to O-Hara Airport in Chicago. Once in Oklahoma City I was soon installed in the rental car which I would drive to Canton, Texas where my brother and his wife live. Saturday, I drove from Canton to the home of one of my sisters who lives near Sapulpa, Oklahoma. By Monday night I was back in my home here in Wheeling, WV. Yesterday I was in Pittsburgh most of the day and today I will be in my home office much of the day although. I was at the gym earlier and later will go to the local post office.
I have friends who travel often for their employer. Their travels may take them across town or someplace as far away as China.
I often wonder about the trail I leave in every place that I visit whether that be for an hour or for years. I am sure that I have left a trail at the gym this morning. I will also leave parts of myself with everyone I meet at places such as the post office. What will I leave? I will leave:
- Pieces of me which contain not only my history but the history of all my ancestors.
- Energy – positive or negative. Perhaps neutral. Is neutral really possible?
- Thoughts – spoken or unspoken.
- Hope perhaps.
- Love, hate or indifference
- Sometimes an object – graffiti, a sculpture, music, a painting, a dance, or ….
- A symbol of my thoughts or feelings.
The possibilities are endless. Humans who travel in space sometimes leave objects on the far away planets they visit.
Here on this planet we now talk of the carbon footprint we are leaving each day.
If I am truthful I am often thinking of what others are leaving or not leaving me and not what I am leaving. I may be thinking “they” could have been nicer, more spiritual, more loving, less self-centered, more honest, less arrogant, more kind, or more considerate. I may be worried about how someone is going to treat me rather than focusing on how I want to treat them no matter they do or say or do not do or say.
The magic of travel –across a room, a city, a country, a continent or planets – is an opportunity to leave a footprint of love, strength, courage, hope, or just gratitude which I suppose is a part of love. I could think of travel as an opportunity to spread what some – especially children – might call fairy dust.
Today I will be more intentionally mindful of how what I am leaving in all the places and with all the people I visit. When I notice myself focusing on what others are leaving or not leaving, doing or not doing I will bring my focus back to what I am leaving. I know that when I do that I will always also pick up something positive which I will bring back to pass on to others. That may be courage, hope, a smile, joy, courage or fairy dust. I will attempt to not bring back mirrors of my darker side.
Written May 24, 2018
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