David Stearman has a lovely blog with a pretty banner of a sailboat. When he invited me to write a guest post, he asked that I match the blog’s theme of Eyes to the Horizon. So I wrote on hope. Here’s the beginning with a link to the full piece at the end.
Finding Hope
Our worlds narrow. As we focus on the now around us, on our limits and our needs, it’s hard to look past that to see the more that graces us, just out of reach.
The news threatens us with joblessness, with homelessness, with the falling dollar and the possibility of war. Politicians sit in their cushy chairs and make promises, but the reality of their world barely touches ours.
We forget to look outside. We forget to take walks or just sit, listening to the bird sounds, to crickets at night, to the call of a loon, the hoot of an owl. We forget to stand in a drizzle and let it wash down our hair and over our face. We forget to let the sunrise welcome the day or the sunset ease us into night. Our surroundings pale because we’ve stared at them so long: at the grind of job or home or health. The people sitting across from us at the table—or missing from that table—no longer offer what we need. Their blandness equals ours because we’ve forgotten to look beyond the fear and the hurt and the sameness.
(Continue reading here: http://davidstearman.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/finding-hope-a-guest-post-by-novelist-normandie-fischer/
