The Happy Path

“Happiness comes from the inside” “Be true to yourself” We hear phrases like this all the time. But how many of us know how to make them reality? Our reality? Each of us is a unique and complete being. From the moment of birth, a brand new, living spark incorporated into an amazing, beautiful, complicated world. With the inherent privilege to experience it. And the opportunity to contribute something no one else ever can. While we all have equal value, equal right to take up the space we occupy, and equal opportunity to contribute something special, we don’t have equal…

Concepts come to me in pictures. They always have. I hear words and my mind kicks into gear building images that represent the ideas and relationships. I visualize to understand, to explain, to remind myself of key concepts when life gets challenging. The Bubble represents how an individual experiences life. I envision life as a river. A river of water. A river of air. It varies. And it doesn’t matter. The river moves swiftly. Sometimes it’s calm and sometimes it’s turbulent, confusing and chaotic. For our journey on this river of life, we are each given an individual and separate…