giving each other wings....

Dear Louise,

We give each other wings, (so much more useful than those silly appendages on the menstrual pads that jumped into my mind....however, I'll look with 'new eyes' on those 'wings').....

so easily distracted, but I'll try again (smile)

We give each other wings
when we share wisdom
With each other.

You help my tangled wings unfurl
The "motherless child" in me
Didn't know--doesn't know
so many simple things
That another 'wiser' woman did;
and your simple sharing
freed me, at least for today
from fearful cobwebs that entangled my 'butterfly' wings.
Your words were like sunshine
Melting foglike cobwebs of self doubt
like sunlight chasing away the fog.
Thank you, dear 'sister'
dear wise friend
who walks the path with me.
My heart is lightened, brightened, and touched;
Open to learning, instead of clouded by doubt.

And in turn,I will touch another, perhaps as I learn to activate the gift of words I was given as a child, and that 'got lost'among the child-rearing and the 'trying to do it "right". Thank you for sharing....especially summerizing for me. I've 'saved' the websites, but the day and responsibilites are calling,so the summary was SO valuable, and even more so, in my 'response' to you, I've taken a moment to 'write my heart', and I thank you for that as well.

I have NOT wanted my cycle to end before I understood it, and it's purposes, in fact, until I "heal". And I've learned a bit already. I've treated my cycle just as I was introduced to it as a teen by my older sisters (I really didn't have a mom from 5 on) as a miserable 'thing' I would have to put up with. And I have raised three daughters, doing slightly better, but just 'passing' it off as a bit of a nuisance.

PERSPECTIVE is EVERYTHING! And think of how our exchange, so brief, has already started changing MY perpective, and of all those who might read this and change THEIRS.

Oh, what a great start to the day.
peace and joy,
PJ