Sometimes our life lessons come from unexpected places. As we look to the new year coming along quickly, we have this promise awaiting: We always have an opportunity to begin again. I remembered writing about this less in an article I wrote a while back entitled After a Storm the Birds Sing.
Beginning again...
With the music blasting as I was doing Saturday’s one’s and two’s a few weeks or so ago, a favorite old song came on the radio. It was Carly Simon singing “Itsy Bitsy Spider.” As I began to sing along with Carly’s rendition of the well-known nursery rhyme, I realized for the first time that I was singing about the same familiar life pattern that goes on in all of life. It recounts one of the defining moments in a spider’s experience.
“The itsy bitsy spider climbed up the water spout. Down came the rain and washed the spider out. Out came the sun and dried up all the rain, and the itsy bitsy spider climbed up the spout again.”
Obviously, she chose, in a new day’s sun, to risk it all again — to go on.
Debbe
Excerpt from After a [i]Storm the Bird Sings[/i] by Debbe Kennedy
Debbe Kennedy
Founder, Global Dialogue Center
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