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A Winters Meaning
As this year comes to a close we look back at all it has given us, taken from us, and promised us. As with everything life, all things must some to an end and start anew. As one season slips away fading into memory, a new one is brought to life. A cycle of unending wonder, one of hopes and dreams.
As we thing of the seasons, we think of the imagery they pass. Spring, a time Joy and Love. Summer, a time of Searches and Reflection. Autumn brings with it Bounty and Changes. And winter, can often be times of Hope and Despair. Each season represents a different stage in our life, in our growth, in our love. We each have our favorite season, a reason beyond measure. For me that season is winter.
Without one season we cannot truly appreciate another. I think Ward Elliot Hour said it best “The color of springtime is in the flower. The color of winter is in the imagination.”
Winter has a subtle beauty to it, one covered in snow, and silence. It is a beauty that is meek and yet complex all in one. The way it smells after the first rain, how snow delicately falls, gently coating the evergreens. The way each snowflake kisses your face. Or the way fire crackles and spats before spluttering into life, then dances and flitters about.
Winter is a season unequaled by any other. The most opposite of all seasons, yet to me one the most beautiful of all. Can one truly describe winter any more than one can describe the feel of sand under your barefoot? Can one explain the beauty of waking up to find a yard of freshly fallen snow? No more than one can explain the way a rose smells as it blooms to life.
As things fade away into memories, new ones are born. Time spent with family and friends, exchanging love and sharing stories. As winter goes on it will soon fade into spring, bringing with it some of the hidden beauty winter has. As the cycle goes on we think and ponder, about the New Year and blessings it will bring.
Oh if I could trap a little bit of winter in bottle, to always hold the magic that is winter.
Wishing you all a little to Adventure today!
Carmela Dutra
Author of Lorenzo the Bear Series
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of “interposition” and “nullification” — one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.”
One of the most powerful speeches in world history: the “I Have a Dream” speech. Just saying that brings a chill down my spine. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s message to the world was not just to fight racism and segregation.
His goal was to make people believe that each individual has power, and anything can be achieved peacefully. Words, feelings, and actions to live by….
Every day brings on challenges. Challenges unique to each individual… However if everyone reflected on the words he spoke, and then acted on at least a few…… How much different would things be….
Dr. King set his goals in a time when people were being hung for sharing his opinion. Still, he was not afraid. He got many death threats while leading the civil rights movement, but this did not stop him, because he knew that giving into fear was the biggest threat to the civil rights movement.
Today is time to reflect on these things, to look at all this speech accomplished. Maybe not then at that moment in time, but decades later. What it means to you, and what you hope it will mean to others in the future.
Dr. King said, “Faith is taking the first step, even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”
Wishing you all a little to Adventure today!
Carmela Dutra
Author of Lorenzo the Bear Series
www.Lorenzothebear.com
Twitter.com/Lorenzothebear @lorenzothebear
Facebook.com/Lorenzothebear (Like me!)
www.ablogforyourthoughts.com
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of “interposition” and “nullification” — one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.”
One of the most powerful speeches in world history: the “I Have a Dream” speech. Just saying that brings a chill down my spine. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s message to the world was not just to fight racism and segregation.
His goal was to make people believe that each individual has power, and anything can be achieved peacefully. Words, feelings, and actions to live by….
Every day brings on challenges. Challenges unique to each individual… However if everyone reflected on the words he spoke, and then acted on at least a few…… How much different would things be….
Dr. King set his goals in a time when people were being hung for sharing his opinion. Still, he was not afraid. He got many death threats while leading the civil rights movement, but this did not stop him, because he knew that giving into fear was the biggest threat to the civil rights movement.
Today is time to reflect on these things, to look at all this speech accomplished. Maybe not then at that moment in time, but decades later. What it means to you, and what you hope it will mean to others in the future.
Dr. King said, “Faith is taking the first step, even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”
Wishing you all a little to Adventure today!
Carmela Dutra
Author of Lorenzo the Bear Series
www.Lorenzothebear.com
Twitter.com/Lorenzothebear @lorenzothebear
Facebook.com/Lorenzothebear (Like me!)
www.ablogforyourthoughts.com
