Big Possibilities

Observing others embarking on life at its beginning, we see a clean slate full of new possibilities and exciting unknowns. As we move through our own lives, each choice can be empowering, it can be daring, it can be well-reasoned or silly, but in one way or another, it directs us on a certain path. And though that path can be altered in seemingly infinite ways, as we get older, our possibilities get more limited.

Perhaps one reason we're attracted to the freshly emerged youth of all species is the inherent symbolism they carry of newness--so many potential choices and directions will shape their now infant lives. They stand for big possibilities.

Here's my brother's first little girl, with whom I've been visiting this week. She flew out with her mother all the way from Texas, and we're enjoying getting to know her at this very tender time of life.

My hope for her, for myself, all those I love (and even those I don't like so much) is for us to stay open to big possibilities, to feel the current of things that could be, and to have the courage to make the right ones happen.

This weekend raise your glass to Big Possibilities and vow to make a great one come to fruition in your life!