Traveling light

We all have personal struggles. In the parlance of the day we call it "baggage." When I finished this piece I thought about calling it "Child with Baggage" but I didn't want to saddle the image with the weight of people's own personal meaning of baggage. There's a LOT of baggage in this image! So I called it "Moving Day." On Moving Day we accept that we are not stuck in one place with all our baggage (no matter how much of it there might be!). On Moving Day we have a choice about what direction our life will take. On Moving Day we muscle everything we have and are to move from this place and...we move on. We are not denying our baggage, we accept it and say "This is the stuff I come with." The people who love us will make room for us and our baggage. I'm not saying we don't try to cast off the useless or unhelpful pieces, because life helps us do just that. I'm just saying we move forward even as we grapple with our own stuff.

Like the physical attributes of our own bodies, the color of our hair and eyes, the thick or thinness of our shape, we also have this inner inventory of attributes, for better or worse, that our distinctly ours too. I believe in this lifetime we have opportunities to embrace those which help us and discard those that don't. If we are lucky we can recognize the best in ourselves so that by the end of our time on this planet, we are traveling light.

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