Winged Night Hope

**FYI ~ I moved all of the 50-word story posts to their own blog.**

Winged night flight,

breath-taking and bold.

I shiver, in the darkness,

witness 

to a preternatural sight,

shimmering, 

in the light of 

a gilded harvest moon. 

A golden gossamer dream

sweeps swiftly

across an indigo sky;

Gripping hope

in her tightly curled talons.

Wishcasting Wednesday ~ Wishes for Saying Yes

Jamie @ Starshyne Productions inspired this post. Each week, Jamie posts a wish prompt ~ a prompt meant to inspire participants to make a wish on their blogs. Giving and receiving support and encouragement lies at the heart of wishcasting. Visit Starshyne for more info on wishcasting.

This week's Wish Prompt ~ What do you wish to say yes to?

I wish to say yes to embracing the present, that place where life resides. And to the future, with all its possibilities. I wish to say yes to letting go of the anguish, anger and pain of past betrayals. And also to focussing on what I have still, as opposed to what I have lost. I wish to say yes to the surrender of forgiveness. And to the submissiveness of humility.


I wish to say yes to living within my means, to rejecting consumerism and to paying my debts. I wish to say yes to embracing reconciliation in my marriage and to giving myself completely in loving my husband. I wish to say yes to engaging life, coming out of my shell, to the many existing opportunities to participate. I wish to say yes to reinstating my professional nursing license and re-entering the profession for the first time in three years.


I wish to say yes to my creative muse, to writing that novel, to maintaining my blogs. I wish to say yes to supporting and encouraging my 23-year old son, who has moved two provinces away to begin a life with his girlfriend. Most of all, I wish to say yes to healing my body, mind and soul.

What do you wish to say yes to? Happy Wishcasting Wednesday.

emergence

we emerged from the dimly lit chambers of our souls today, he and i. our solitary, dimly lit soul chambers. where we had entombed ourselves in ourselves. a primordial retreat?

a sudden change of life's navigation path tends to suck one dry, so to speak, of essence. of strength. of momentum. change wildly casts its shadow. and each time i look, its slightly different. engrossing. frightening.

i told him in my way that i felt deserted yesterday. that, in my search for his reassuring wisdom yesterday, i felt sort of dashed away into the uncertainty void. yesterday, i silently floundered in my doubt. perception governs action. funny, that. and i felt ... unsure. un-valid. frightened, gawping out at the massive swelling sea of possibility that lies before me. and i felt a fleeting pinch of sadness, for relinquishing a noble vocation.

today the sun rose. we emerged from our searing solitude. we converged. my soul sighed in contentment when i felt him wrap his gentle and reassuring wisdom around me. and his eyes, once again, sparkle with hope and happiness. and positive energy burgeons. our cup, it brims over with love, light, hope and strength to forge ahead.

i have my one-way ticket in hand.


images originally uploaded by dleroy and cwhatuc