Equinox (n.) - the time when the sun crosses the plane of the earth's equator, making night and day of approximate equal length all over the world.
Today was an amazingly balanced, extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary woman.
Today I was able to do some work on behalf of our community and its' most defenseless citizens. I was blessed to be able to spend a few hours at a job that still energizes me after thirteen years and to eat slices of pizza with my boys, beside a booth full of colleagues who are also great friends.
Today I drove across the county where I live, with the windows down and the radio blasting; listening to my children sing and reveling in the beauty of the blooming trees and flowers surrounding us. I felt the same sense of freedom that I did when I was their age, riding in my dad's pick-up, singing the songs of my youth and feeling the wind in my hair.
Today I bought a miniature work of art at a local boutique. I started weeding the flower beds in my backyard and I sat on my neighbor's front porch while our children played basketball in the street. I watched a thunderstorm roll across the sky with intense flashes of lightning and powerful booms of thunder, from the safety of my kitchen where we all sat down to dinner...together.
Today I breathed the breath of my life in and out, peacefully.
And for me, that is an incredible feat. Despite the worries, the stress and the absolute absurdity of the anxieties that plague me, today the universe conspired to gift me with balance...and I was gracious enough to soak it in like the spring sunshine. Today.
Today I was as fully present in each moment of as I am humanly able to be and I experienced the celebration that is a day in life of an ordinary human.
