Ready. Set. Go!
We saw this on the side of the road recently and just had to share it. We absolutely love it when people create unexpected little roadside gifts like this that bring endless smiles & joy to others along the way.
Sometimes life truly can be…
…just like a massive slingshot.
When it is, aim for the absolute very best that you possibly can and just let go….
Let your creativity, your love, your best intentions (and your inhibitions!) fly
And remind yourself… you can’t ever really control where anything actually lands.
All you can do is to aim well as you can, with the very best of intentions…
May the wind be with you, and may you always aim from the core of your heart.
P.S This post made me think of an excerpt by Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) from a chapter on children in his book “The Prophet”.
I’m not sure that it even coincides with the above, but somehow I linked the two in my bizarre damn way of associative lillypad thinking ways.
These are his words:
“And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, Speak to us of Children.
And he said:
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.”
From The Prophet (Knopf, 1923). This poem is in the public domain.