Life rewrites our stories everyday. We aren’t asked if it’s okay, it just happens.

Everything you thought you could count on evaporates.

What you had planned gets cancelled.

And still, it is okay, really it is. Sometimes the plan, the event, the person was meant to be somewhere else doing something else. The challenge is being able to accept the alterations with a feeling of hope, not doom. We can’t know until our last breath what it was all meant to be…perhaps this is really only a preamble to what is next for us. Baby steps in a long, unknown path that we must follow whether we want to or not. It is how we follow that path that determines what joy we get out of it all.

As Alexander Graham Bell said:

When one door closes, another opens;
but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door
that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

The pictures?....here, there and everywhere...but mostly the mountains here on the east coast.