Funny how I sit down to write these with an idea of where I am heading, but the photo takes me down a different path. Sometimes I believe that I don't really write these pieces, but a wiser soul is speaking through my fingers. My need to write, a desire so strong, I cannot fight, is like a current that just carries me along. I ride it and it takes me to new places.
On Sunday we celebrated the 4th of July with the usual fanfare. Good friends, too much wine, yummy food and breathtaking fireworks over the lake. This year while celebrating all that is great about America, our home sweet home, we also said goodbye to the Unwanted. Cheryl and I spent the school year sharing custody of a necklace that no one wanted. We wore it, we photographed it, we wrote about it. Slowly it began to wear us, take us places and force us to face some unwanted things about our personal lives.
The Unwanted symbolized a lot of unwanted things in our lives at work. While we spoke through the necklace about all that was wrong and unbalanced there, the necklace began to speak to us about how to make it through. It showed us how to look at things differently, turn things around and make peace with what we were given. This unwanted, ugly necklace brought new understanding to our lives. It showed us how beautiful we can be if we separate ourselves from the negativity.
As we lowered the Unwanted into the fire pit, we watched the flames engulf it. It burned proudly all evening, holding on till the very end. As we end our journey with the necklace, we remember that as long as we stay grounded, we will always be able to reach high, and attain our goals. As long as they are goals that truly mean something to us. ~Susan
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