Holidays 2019

Holiday Blends...

Another Day on the Street

Holidays.... Another season of Hope underway as my 20^th Holiday

and Winter Season is rolling in. So many Blessings and much

to be Grateful for, along with devastating blows to contend with.

But the Holidays are really not a favorite time for me, not anymore.

Haven't been for a long time. Having no place to go, and

no one to share the days with, just fills my heart and soul

with a deeper emptiness left vacant and hollow.

As the air becomes Festive and Vibrant, and while the

Scents of Fall filling our lungs with the Sweet Warmth

of Spices, Baking and cooking, the Holidays brings

duality along with it. Living on the streets,

you only experience the Holidays through the

looking glass from the outside, not involved in or

immersed through it.

Breathing in The Crisp, Sweet air of the mornings and

evenings are one of the Best feelings, adding a

sense of excitement of Beauty yet to come.

Well, the air used to be Sweet and Crisp, now

reeks of Pot fumes at every turn, the Hint of

the sweet, clean, crisp air is still present.

But having to face and spend yet another Holiday and

Winter Season without a home and literally on the cold, harshness

of the streets, brings the reality of it smashing in my face.

So along with the Blessings I have and all I have

to be Grateful for, it collides in opposition to

living on the streets and all the challenges that

alone brings. The list of challenges a

physically challenged female having to

live every moment on the street nearly mutes

all the good; But being In Nature and Living every

moment in NATURE, brings beauty to my heart

and eyes as I breathe and experience all Nature

offers. With a front row seat to the colors blooming and

shedding, all the animals singing their songs, and

communicating with each other and everyone around,

with the background sounds of the traffic that tries to

mute the Nature Effect, and does diminish the

experience and feel of being IN nature, but cannot completely

overshadow it. Beauty will find its way through.

Like a single flower will push through the most barren

landscape to bring Hope and Beauty.

Holidays on the streets are like that single flower,

Hope and Beauty filters through on occasion.

No, it is not there every moment, but it does come

through and when it does and the light captures

your heart in those moments, the shroud of

smothering darkness lessens.

Holidays on the Street are not steeped in traditions, other than

the ones you create... mine, I usually have a good stack of

Books, which I take to the park and spend the day

reading and writing, meditating, and walking in Nature, unless

I am able to find some place in need of volunteers.

Holiday air takes on a different feel, where it becomes

electric and vibrates with its own heartbeat

pulsing with excitement. Where the Air becomes

Alive with Promise, and Hope...

December is the most invigorating month of the entire

year. The air is sweeter, brighter, crisp and filled with Sparks

of Hope, Light and Love that bring the feeling that Anything and

everything is not only possible, but the endless

possibilities that fill every thought, deed and action

arise and take hold of your heart, where Faith

takes flight and directs your every move.

Holidays 2019