A Homeless Girl and an Executive Guy

I woke up this morning to grey skies in sunny California. I'm getting used to the idea that the fog comes in the morning and midday brings with it the beauty of blue skies and endless sunshine. It's an interesting thing... Being from Connecticut where the weather is what it is (rain, snow, sleet, humidity), California seems to always have surprises at hand, weather and otherwise.  

So here I am and here my life is and what have I learned thus far? *Love is all there is.*  

This morning, I was sitting in Starbucks, and a tall man dressed in a full suit (business professional) was putting cream and sugar in his coffee. A young girl (not more than 19), came up to him (she was casually dressed) and said, "Sir, do you have any change?" She didn't look homeless but, as soon as I heard her words, I knew she was. She was homeless and, of all the people in this Starbucks, she went to the one man who she thought could help her and, without even so much as a look in her direction, he replied, "Sorry, no."  

I knew he had change. This girl knew he had change. He knew he had change. And I saw the girl go back to her seat in Starbucks and I wondered, "Should he have said yes?" Two minutes later, after the man left, the girl got up and bought herself a small coffee and I wondered to myself, "If she needed his money so badly, how could she have bought a coffee for herself?"  

At this moment, I got clearly that I was passing judgment on everyone in the room, including myself and I took a step back. I came back to what is said in "The Four Agreements": Don't make assumptions. I don't know this girl's situation. I don't know why the professional guy said no.  

All I know is that we're living in a world that is endlessly abundant, a world where each of us can live as we please, as abundantly as we please, as joyously as we please. I left Starbucks wondering if this young girl, with so much life left to live, and that tall, business dressed man, with maybe a sense of dismissal, knew how endlessly abundant our world truly is. I myself was reminded that there is no limit to what each of us can give...

I Could Write 15 books...

My life has changed so dramatically from 3 years ago to now, I can't even begin to tell you...

Today is my youngest child's 3rd birthday. It's bittersweet. She's not with me and she's turning three. I'm not there to tell her "Happy Birthday" in person and, yet, this is the first year that I'm not crying about it. I'm at peace with where my life is because if there's one thing all of my experiences has come to teach me, it's this:

this too shall pass. 

I'm learning that life is much like nature: it reveals its secrets by and by.

Needless to say, I could write 15 books on what I've experienced in the last 4 years ALONE.

Danielle Steele watch out. I've got so much more to tell and this is only the beginning!