Made it to the sea....herculean feat right now I'm actually amazed I did it.
While trying to relax on the plane, I casually gazed out of the window. I watched the sunrise through long stripes of clouds as the sky turned every color of the rainbow. I watched cloud formations dance and move amongst each other, some standing straight up, some intertwined horizontally as they filled the space between the sea and the sky. I thought about how those clouds must view us down here. Tootling along looking like ants busy in the tiny toy cars through zigzagging streets and buildings. Looks so frivolous from 20,000 feet in the air. Does any of that busyness we fill our days with actually matter? When on the ground, it's all so encompassing and 'important'. Pecking orders and tasks and deadlines and have tos before want tos. From up in that plane, I gained an understanding of why G-d laughs all day- we look ridiculous! We do plan and strategize honestly to make us feel like we have control...when in truth, we have NONE.

As we approached our destination, we flew through massive dark rain clouds. Was incredible to see the shadow it cast over the mini houses and pools and malls and streets, saying, watch out people you are about to get soaked! I then thought about the people looking up- ugh, such a cloudy ominous sky today, they'd say. Yet what we all forget is what is above those dark clouds. The sun was shining bright and happy on top of those rain clouds and a few miles in every direction around. But we only focus on what's right above, don't we? What if in the dark moments I could remember the clouds move at the pace they are meant to and the sun is still right where it always is but from my vantage point in that moment, I can't see it. The dark comes just as light comes but it is all always just moving through....so if it doesn't stay stuck, why do I?