What if the most formidable way
Is the one path forward?
What if the elusive path,
The most obscure,
The path with fear and strangeness
Hanging like vines,
Has always been the one?
©Ashley Castle Barnes
Being the end of the year, I’m reflecting like many of us do.
Reflecting not only on the last year, but across the last several. A decade, really.
Noticing what keeps returning to the surface of my awareness.
What keeps whispering to me, “Go this way.”
And what I’ve been ignoring or avoiding.
What directions I’ve shunned for seemingly easier, more obvious choices.
For the low-hanging fruit.
Which sometimes turns out to be the easiest to pluck but the hardest to eat.
Perhaps there’s something sweeter, more succulent in the fruit picked along the road less traveled?
What are you reflecting on today?