It’s the places you don’t know about
You know we got started renting out the LaLa by necessity but it’s not as if I haven’t always wanted to be an innkeeper. What’s interesting is that (knock on wood) the guests we have hosted have all turned out to be wonderful, interesting and grateful to stay at the LaLa. Who knew that this was part of the journey?
Even my new bald patches have made for insightful conversation with friends. One told me she lost her hair like this as a freshman in college. Another friend said it happened when she was nursing her daughter. So bald patches are not so unusual even if they are caused by stress in most cases.
The body is saying, uh uh, we’re not going there, see what happens when you take on stress for so long – you don’t have to pull your hair out, we’ll make it fall out for you.
And it reminds you to step outside on the terrace and take one more good long look at Jupiter and Venus so visible in the night sky these days. If you really stare at those planets disguised as bright stars, you get to thinking about how large this universe is and beyond, and you begin to understand that a lot of what you put into the column of Things that Matter don’t, and a lot of what does matter that you put in the column To Deal With When I Have Time do. And so who knew about these things before when the earth was spinning fast on its axis and making us believe we could all ride for free.