peel another layer back.....

Life is like an onion; you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is.....

~James Gibbons Huneker

Underneath all our facades,

underneath all the masks we carry around to make us

look like we

think others expect us to look,

is

a sliver of who we were created to become,

who we are intended to be,

who we really are.

I am continually amazed

at the wonder of what happens...

the deeper i go,

the more i allow myself to wonder

why i feel the way i feel

the more i discover

that

i am covered

by

the

layers of expectations,

perceptions,

and

experiences of my encounters with others,

tiny layers

put on top of each other

until finally

the

underneath me

no longer is visible to anyone

or anything

sometimes

not even me.

It smothers me,

one day

i needed to breath

and

so it started

the shedding process

and

little by little

speck by speck

I am pulling them off

picking them off

tossing them aside

it is painful at times

this shedding process of sorts..

but underneath

the heavy burden

underneath

perceptions and expectations

I

binds me,

keeps my true colors from showing

and

keeps my light

buried beneath

all the

stuff others have placed upon me

and

all the stuff I have unreluctantly picked up over time.

tiny layers,

built up over time

covering

me

find

glimmers

of the one

i used to know

and

I kinda like her.

so go ahead,

trust your core,

pull

pluck

pick

explore

there is a beautiful you

underneath all that stuff

trust who you are

and

let your core glow!!!

Happy Monday...

hugs and blessings

the radical rambler