Turning Toward the Light

The earth does not ask for permission to bloom. It simply happens. A slow, quiet insistence against the gray of the pavement. We carry our heavy things—our schedules, our errands, the noise of the street—and we forget that we are also capable of this. To turn. To face the warmth. To open until the center is exposed to the sky.

It is a small rebellion. To find a patch of gold in the middle of the mundane. We think we need grand reasons to be alive, but perhaps we only need to be still enough to notice the color. What happens to the heart when it stops looking for the destination and begins to follow the sun?

Jose Juniel Rivera-Negron has taken this beautiful image titled Freedom and Happiness. It reminds me that beauty is often waiting in the places we walk past every day. Will you look for it tomorrow?