A Masterpiece

     Life has felt a bit heavy the past few weeks.  Autumn's diagnosis has been slowly crushing  the positive thoughts right out of me.  Everyday issues have been swarming incessantly through my head stalking me into sleep at night.  Mornings have found me unrested under the cloak of darkness that fall has spread across the land.
     The night sky with its exhausted stars met me as I left the house in the morning.  I turned the lights on in the barn and woke up the sleepy blinky eyed horses.  I tossed them some hay to keep them quiet as I set up their pens for the day that would eventually come.  I grumbled around connecting and dragging hoses to the empty water troughs in the pens that I had to scrub out and fill with a flash light clenched in between my teeth.  As they filled I bitched my way back and forth to the barn setting out hay and dragging the hose to the next trough.  I didn't waste anytime stargazing as I rushed to get everything done before I had to get to my real job eight o'clock. 
     I arrived at the last water trough that was two minutes from being full.  Great! Two minutes wasted when I could've haltered up a horse and walked them out here in time to turn off the hose.  My mind bitching suddenly got interrupted by the hooting owl in the fir tree behind me.  The rhythm of his song soared through me. It took possession of my breathing, familiarizing it with the cadence of his lullaby.  A calm settled over me and I opened my eyes to what was in front of me.  A crooked crescent moon smiled as it rose to start its day beside me.

     The darkness began to fade as the sunrise shook out it's first morning light.

   Drowsy plum and magenta clouds enveloped the vanishing crescent moon in its light. 

 As I watched the sky paint itself in front of me a shooting star flamed across the sky. 

Then, I finally got it. 

This is life.  This is what the world does.  It's not all about work.  It's not life testing your patience.  It's not about bills or shopping or not having.  The sun wakes up everyday.  The wind blows.  The rain falls.  The waves break.  The rivers flow.  Night falls. That's all that really happens.  The rest is created.  Drama in my life is what I let it be.  I dropped the hose and got Autumn out of her stall. Together we painted ourselves into masterpiece happening around us in simple happiness.

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