The Evening Muse │Consciousness │Self-Awareness as Self-Empowerment

Joy Despite Sorrow — Something New is Emerging…

Are we shifting our consciousness to joy and beauty?

“Beauty All Around Us” designed by Carmellita in Canva

In my kitchen, I whip out the cutting board and use my pineapple cutter to cut an entire pineapple into rings of yellow gold. Ah, I think this one is a sweet one. I took a bite from the slice, and I was right. Sweet, indeed.

I walk over to my window. I can see the city. On the ninth floor, I look up and see a few dark clouds. And yet, the sun peeks through shades of gray. I hold up one of my pineapple rings. I laugh because each ring looks like the sun.

Don’t miss it. Remember to look up when there is a sunrise or a sunset. And if there is a storm, respect nature's renewal. As we are on this journey we call life, let’s not miss out on the good things happening all around us because we are focusing on wrongs in our world.

Glued to our televisions, cellphones, tablets, and apple watches, we hear one bad report after another. Despair makes for good dope (dopamine rush, that is). Living our lives under so much stress and duress causes us to miss the sun.

Even behind the darkest cloud, the sun is always re(mind)ing us to live. Live fully, boldly, joyfully. Will there be sorrows…