Where’s Your Sparkle?
At a family birthday celebration, I was talking with my stepdaughter about her daughter, Gracie, age five. Gracie had been down with a very bad cold, and Monica said to her, as the cold dragged on and Gracie drooped around, “Honey, you’ve lost your sparkle.” Gracie replied, “I think it’s behind the couch.”
Gracie. In Full "Sparkle."
Aside from being beyond touching, this mother/daughter moment made me think about how I lose my”sparkle.” When there’s too much to do. When emotions come up as circumstances bring up My Issues. When I take it all soooo seriously. The question is, how do we maintain that “sparkle?” (No, I’m not leading up to buying more jewelry.) It’s really about how we brave the world. How we keep shining in the face of stuff that makes us all droop and fade from time to time. I’m not offering advice or spiritual consolation or words about inner work, etc. We all have our ways to stay in tune and keep the lights on.
So. How do you keep your “sparkle?”
Interesting to come home and read this! I just rode my bicycle on a beautiful and unusually warm October day! I know for sure riding my bike brings my sparkle back. So does painting with watercolor, sewing, laughing really hard, fully realizing the joy already present in my life, and so many other little things that help take-care-O-Me. Hm. Sounds like I could have used one word ~creativity~
Thanks to Gracie for reminding me that sometimes all I have to do is look behind the couch.