After a full morning or seeing four clients in four hours and quickly completing paperwork, I jumped into my car to meet a co-worker for a meeting. I winded my way up through the dim parking garage and then punched into the sunlight of the beautiful day. My eyes were met with spectacular beauty. The mountainside was washed in piercing gold, the glittering Aspen trees in the depths of their fall ritual. I paused, reflecting on the amazing transformation that happens each year. It was a great reminder that change is always occurring and is a natural process. Finding beauty and positive in change gives hope. The beauty of fall is really the death of millions of leaves, which must die for a tree to live through the harsh, frigid winter. Then in spring, the cycle is begun again. A wonderful reminder for life. Some days are busy and hectic, others calm and relaxing, and others everything in between. Remembering to find the beauty in each moment and not wish it away...to live in the present. From personal experience, I have found when I am living in the present, I feel alive and really have no other time or place I'd rather be. When I am living in the future (which is what happens to me most), misery starts to creep in, my mood becomes depressed, I become more grouchy. Why would I choose to live in the future?! I am grateful for the visual reminder that is hard to miss right now! Later, pushing my bike pedals up, up, up...trying to not listen to the negative thoughts ("why am I doing this, I suck at this, I'm so out of shape") and notice the rhythm of my strokes, my breathing, scan my body for where there is tension and where there is not. Again, the golden leaves catch my eyes and take my breath away. The wind blows and it begins to rain gold. I am brought out of myself and into the reality of the calm serenity around me. Greg is stopped up ahead to take in the breathtaking views and colors...I join him, catching my breath, no longer feeling the physical suffering but immense gratitude for being alive.
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