No Exit

How are you spending this Memorial Day weekend? Getting away for the weekend, if not physically at least mentally? Or are you still caught up in whatever you've created, or are trying to create?

Escape is an all-to-common way of dealing with things. The struggles are sometimes so incessant or overwhelming that we need some time to renew and recreate ourselves. And from there, hopefully to return with greater perspective and ability to move through them.

Unfortunately, most of the time we don't. Because when we come back, the problems are there waiting for us. And so the stomach tightens and the pulse pounds for the inevitable more-of-the-same.

Maybe a quick fix isn't enough. Maybe we need to look at it another way. Perhaps we should just step back and enjoy it all, like taking in the Mona Lisa at the Louvre.

This life is your work of art. So enjoy your creation. And when the fancy strikes, create something else to enjoy.