{"id":74,"date":"2010-11-12T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/blissblog\/2010\/11\/unwritten.html"},"modified":"2019-08-26T23:16:21","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T03:16:21","slug":"unwritten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/blissblog\/2010\/11\/unwritten.html","title":{"rendered":"Unwritten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Doing some reminsicing lately. Thinking back to a time a few years ago, <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">when\u00a0I received a message from a sweet voiced woman who identified <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">herself as Florence Simons. She asked if I did clowning. I figured she was <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">interested in having Feather (my clown alter- ego) come out and do an event <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">or party. Would never have imagined what she said, as the message <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">continued. She told me that she saves newspaper clippings and frames them <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">for display. She had an article that was written about me from way back in <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">November of 2000. In it, I spoke about my husband Michael&#8217;s\u00a0death and how <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">clowning was part of the <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">healing of my heart and soul. The title of the article <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">was <\/span><\/span><\/span><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&#8220;Character Provides Solace To The Woman Behind The Paint&#8221;. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Well, this lovely octogenarian had framed the article and wanted to gift me <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">with it.\u00a0 I <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">was honored and delighted to drive over to her home a few\u00a0 minutes <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">away. When I pulled into her driveway next to a tidy farmhouse, I had the <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">radio on and a song wafted <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">its way to my receptive ears. Normally, I would <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">have just turned it off and gotten out of <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">the car. On that particular\u00a0day, the <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">lyrics called to me, since I had never heard it before. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>Unwritten<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>Natasha Bedingfield<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">I am unwritten, can&#8217;t read my mind, I&#8217;m undefined<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">I&#8217;m just beginning, the pen&#8217;s in my hand, ending unplanned<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Staring at the blank page before you<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Open up the dirty window<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Reaching for something in the distance<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">So close you can almost taste it<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Release your inhibitions<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Feel the rain on your skin<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">No one else can feel it for you<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Only you can let it in<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">No one else, no one else<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Can speak the words on your lips<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Drench yourself in words unspoken<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Live your life with arms wide open<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Today is where your book begins<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The rest is still unwritten<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Oh, oh, oh<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">I break tradition, sometimes my tries, are outside the lines<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">We&#8217;ve been conditioned to not make mistakes, but I can&#8217;t live that way<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Staring at the blank page before you<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Open up the dirty window<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Reaching for something in the distance<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">So close you can almost taste it<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Release your inhibitions<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Feel the rain on your skin<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">No one else can feel it for you<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Only you can let it in<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">No one else, no one else<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Can speak the words on your lips<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Drench yourself in words unspoken<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Live your life with arms wide open<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Today is where your book begins<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Feel the rain on your skin<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">No one else can feel it for you<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Only you can let it in<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">No one else, no one else<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Can speak the words on your lips<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Drench yourself in words unspoken<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Live your life with arms wide open<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Today is where your book begins<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The rest is still unwritten<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Staring at the blank page before you<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Open up the dirty window<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Reaching for something in the distance<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">So close you can almost taste it<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Release your inhibitions<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Feel the rain on your skin<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">No one else can feel it for you<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Only you can let it in<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">No one else, no one else<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Can speak the words on your lips<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Drench yourself in words unspoken<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Live your life with arms wide open<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Today is where your book begins<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Feel the rain on your skin<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">No one else can feel it for you<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Only you can let it in<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">No one else, no one else<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Can speak the words on your lips<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Drench yourself in words unspoken<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Live your life with arms wide open<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Today is where your book begins<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The rest is still unwritten<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The rest is still unwritten<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The rest is still unwritten<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Oh, yeah, yeah<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten (Official Video) (as featured in Anyone But You)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b7k0a5hYnSI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">A few things immediately leapt forward. This song was so clearly speaking to <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">what I had experienced,\u00a0during that time\u00a0in particular. I had been feeling as <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">tempestuous and tumultuous as the rain storms that had drenched this area <\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\">at the time<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I journaled about the experience: &#8220;Last night, driving home from a concert, <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">lightning <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">piercing the slate gray sky, crack of thunder directly above my car, windshield tears <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">streaming down, the wipers unable to keep pace, a flood of emotions in waves across the <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">roads. So many blank pages await me each day. I know the words I want to inscribe <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">upon them, only to find that many of them remain at the level of fantasy at evening time <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">by what has come to pass. I also know that so many of them have played out beautifully, <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">manna-festing at the speed of thought.&#8221; <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Walking through the doorway, I was greeted with a hug by the red haired, <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">bright-eyed Florence whose effervescence belies her age. Her walls are a <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">tribute to her love of the eclectic&#8230;a collection of pigs in the form of images <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">and quotes; my favorite : &#8220;Never try to teach a pig to sing&#8230;.it wastes your <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">time and annoys the pig .&#8221;, high school graduation photos of her 9 children, <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">whom she raised solo since her husband died in the late 1970&#8217;s, multi-cultural <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">art work, representing many of the places to which she has traveled over the <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">years, and a poster of Annie Lennox and Sting from their concert tour a few <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">years back. She also had a plaque that so clearly links us as sisters and <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">kindred spirits: &#8220;Wild women don&#8217;t get the blues.&#8221; At least we don&#8217;t have them <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">for very long. As I unwrapped the framed story, tears came to my eyes. The <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">years rolled back seamlessly. Relatively newly widowed with a challenging 13 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">year old son to raise to adulthood, had just started a job as Director of Social <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Services at a local nursing home, immersed in spiritual service as a minister, <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">no clue what would be unfolding before me. Emotions raw and ragged at <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">times; some of them masked behind the red nosed-white faced, purple <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">coverall-ed visage of Feather. Looking back through the time tunnel, I wonder <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&#8220;if I knew then what I know now&#8230;&#8221; would I have jumped for joy or recoiled in <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">fear at all that has occurred in the interceding years? Were those pages as <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">yet unwritten, awaiting my pen to scribe the events and characters yet to <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">present themselves or was it all already scripted, waiting for me and those in <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">my life to step forward into the light? In 2000, many of those who are dear to <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">my heart now, were living their lives off my radar screen. It took the work of <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Divine Design to pull together all of the pieces. It occurred to me that this <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">would be a great name for some aspect of my business, since so much of the <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">work I&#8217;m called on to do seems to be by divine design. As I was writing this, I <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">received an email with a quote from Ernest Holmes (of Science of Mind) <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">which speaks of a Divine Pattern that is in all things. Close enough.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">As I ponder the immensity of this concept, I wonder what I will write on the <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">virginal pages tomorrow; planting seeds for six years hence. Who will be in <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">my life then who isn&#8217;t now and who will still be present who is now? What <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">treasure awaits? I can&#8217;t wait to read what will have been written.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">What will you write on your blank pages today?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doing some reminsicing lately. Thinking back to a time a few years ago, when\u00a0I received a message from a sweet voiced woman who identified herself as Florence Simons. She asked if I did clowning. I figured she was interested in having Feather (my clown alter- ego) come out and do an event or party. 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