Behind These Hands

by Linda Vigen Phillips

Today is different. It feels like uncomfortable new shoes, shoes someone else picked out for me, shoes that pinch, rub, squeeze, burn. Shoes that are ugly, cost too much money, and shoes I have to wear someplace I don’t want to go. Shoes that hurt make me think of Davy

Great imagery of how you feel different when facing sudden life changing challenges

Batten has rearranged our family like pieces of familiar furniture placed awkwardly in a new setting.

Good imagery of hw family relationships can feel both familiar yet different during life changing challenges.

“Feather is for traveling light, like shedding baggage— the stuff, well, like the stuff I’ve been carrying around, maybe you, too, dumb stuff like guilt, anger, resentment. The rock is for dwelling deep. This one’s not so easy… figuring out what or who you are deep down in your core, you know solid, peaceful, rounded like a river rock and how you are going to live it out, especially given your life circumstances at the moment.

Good imagery of how to handle unexpected and difficult life challenges.

Who knows what can happen when you set your mind and your heart and your hands to work dealing with life.

Inspiration when facin adversity

Now everything about music and about this moment feels right, balanced, light as a feather and steady as a rock.

Balanced and peaceful approach to life's adversities - light as a feather and solid as a rock