Seriously excellent Wind Horse!
I tried to get to the local store that might have a chance of carrying Wind Horse flags… but the whole town was blacked out all week from the storm.
So, Amazon to the rescue.
There’s a whole Variety Pack, to cover all your Wind Horse needs.
We hung the big ones outside.
Now, let’s review:
Yes, I am an atheist.
No, I do not think that the Wind Horse will magically, mystically help me through my hard times. That would be religion. Which I don’t have.
But, like the people who put up the Wind Horse before climbing Mount Everest, I’m embarking on an extremely difficult task. I need all the determination I can muster.
By flying the Wind Horse, I’m declaring to myself that I intend to prevail. And I’m reminding myself of that commitment.
It is far too easy to allow a bad situation to become the norm, and to simply plod through your days, enduring. It becomes second nature — and then first nature.
I need to prevent that happening, and keep my focus on the goal (Take action to sort out the insane situation at work; continue to be creative even while it’s going on).
And that’s why the Wind Horse. It’s a declaration, and a reminder. It stands out from the white-noise visual background of my surroundings as something new, remarkable, and significant.
And I also have to admit (as a full-grown adult woman who used to be a twelve-year-old girl, just like every other twelve-year-old girl), that a part of me is going:
Did you say, HORSE?
Did you say, wait — WIND horse? As in, horse that FLIES?
OMG!
November 5th, 2011 at 3:05 pm
Bellerophon. Sigh. Somewhere I have a pic of me at 13 on a horse, of course.
I’m spending a lot of time these days at freethoughtsblogs.com.
Whatever you need to help you focus or slog through is what you use. Good luck (ha! more magical thinking) but seriously . . . good everything to you.
Just re-read #3 and #4 (I love Eamer and Lorren, and Beck, too).