For the restless spirit!

2020 is definitely the year of lessons.....for me, for you, for all, for communities, countries, economies... I am a part of a Facebook group called "Girls LOVE Travel".  Yesterday I came across an interesting post there:  " Please brag to me about a thing you did in 2020 that you are proud of. "  The post got thousands of responses - and I spent most of my morning reading them. For a year that everyone characterizes as all things negative, I was struck by the positivity I saw there ...... from hundreds of women all across the world .... it filled my heart.... and reminded me of the indomitable spirit of us humans. Instead of mourning or worrying themselves silly due to the crazy times around, these women have given a positive twist to their coping mechanisms, to do wonderful things - they have taken better care of themselves, so many have got out of abusive relationships and moved on to better lives, some mended broken connects, many started new endeavors - commerc...

I am sure we have all learnt something this year - good, bad or ugly.  So much has changed - some we were able to manage and some not at all. Yet the year has listened to no one..... like tsunami, it has crashed on our unprepared shores and created a lot of deep wreckage, some that probably can be restored / revived and a lot that has changed forever.  One of my many learnings this year has been this :  We spent most of our lifetime building bridges and then either breaking them or having to walk away. Only a handful, if at all, of the bridges we built in our lifetime, remain unchanged .....  And I don't mean this in a negative manner, I say it as it is - the way Nature and Life intended it to be, perhaps.  One of my recent joys has been gardening, though I have the smallest of space to use. Yet, each morning, I rush to my balcony to see which buds have bloomed and which flower has wilted overnight. Both fill my heart. A little bud sparks hope in me - of somethi...