Nature's reframe

I was driving around town after work a couple of days ago, in the throes of rush hour, frustrated by the traffic and making a mental "to do" list for when I got home, including wondering if I could get a walk in before the rain started and wondering if I would die of starvation if I went for a walk before eating (hey it could totally happen).  There were cars everywhere, and I found myself wondering if everyone had traveled great distances to arrive at this precise point and time just to thwart my efforts to run errands before the monsoon started.  Well, ok, I didn't actually KNOW there would be a monsoon, but the clouds looked pretty menacing....  Anyway, as I was spinning all sorts of stories in my head about my situation, I looked up and spotted a faint rainbow that spanned the storm clouds above me.  In an instant I was awed and grateful for a sight so lovely, and glad that the rush hour traffic had allowed me to be at that precise point and time to see it.

And so we begin...again......

Ok so it's four months later and I am working on post number TWO, chuckling wryly at my own timidity and reluctance to really give this a go.  Like I said before (yeah, that's right, way back in January), reframing is a skill we ALL need, me included!  I have been circling this blog thing for a looong time now, feeling pressured by my own amorphous expectation to "Say Something Important and Helpful."  And of course feeling not equal to the task, or at least being afraid that I won't be able to deliver on my self-imposed title of World's Most Awesome Blog (we all have delusions of grandeur, too, right?), I just stopped writing!  So, after some consideration and reflection, I decided that I was approaching this from a decidedly unhelpful perspective.  Maybe instead of pressuring myself to write volumes of heady, profound stuff, I can just write a sentence or two.....relay a situation that struck me as a good reframe, or a good CHANCE for a reframe......  That feels more doable, so I am going to give that a go.  Oh, and also I am going to send this to, like, actual PEOPLE who might read it and respond.  I'll be back!