The Sign Says...

  It is amazing how the human brain works...or sometimes overworks....or sometimes does not do a lick of working at all.  Mine, lately, has been bouncing back and forth between being in overdrive to having stalled at the corner waiting for the light to change.  During those frenetic times, it seems that I am trying to build mountains out of molehills.  Bad part about this..I am succeeding.  Those mountains in my brain appear to be insurmountable.  I become increasingly aggravated by things that are never going to be under my control and wish to ditch it all and hide under a rock until the problem passes.  In some ways, that may not be such a bad idea.  Still, I can't.  Regardless of the task at hand, my nature is to not quit.  So, I push myself to face things head on.  

  That is not to say that I do not need reassurance that things are going to be fine and dandy.  So, like so many others, I start looking for signs for that bit of encouragement to carry on.  This afternoon as I walked the old dog about the hillside, my brain was in a turmoil.  Today was one of those days where for every two steps forward, I took ten backward.  The whole day made me tired...just tired.  Once down near the marsh, Mr. PJ stopped dead in his tracks.  He stood sniffing the north wind as if something was about to happen.  Then...a grape leaf fell from the sky.  It dropped as softly as a downy feather just a few feet in front of him.  Weird.  We were far from the grapevines.  In fact,we were under an oak tree.  It then dawned on me that perhaps this was my so-called "sign".  The leaf was bright yellow and in a the shape of a perfect heart.  

  If you ever delve into symbolism of colors, you will find that yellow means happiness, energy and positivity.  Hmmm...yep, that would be a pretty good sign to accept.  Instead of dwelling on the confusion battling it out inside my head, I need to focus that energy into something positive.  This should be something that is realized without the "sign" even though one never hurts to reinforce the idea.  If it takes a grape leaf to set things right in the mind, so be it.