As you all know if you’ve been reading this page, I walk every day but my walks are not really like others…ha ha.

I am slower than molasses and in my case that’s not just an expression. It’s true. But I also stop to look around and take pictures a great deal. This really started during my trek but has continued since I’ve been back. I love photos.

But also while walking I frequently have “epiphanies” as well. I am trying to share these as they come to me because I think they might help others make positive changes either in their lives or in their thinking.

Most of the time I walk on this same route through a park and a “greenway”(? I think that’s what it’s called). I am also very short. That is the background for this. One day I just looked up at this particular moment and saw all these mushrooms on the tree – way above my head. There were so many of them that they would have been impossible to miss.

But you have to look around you in order to see them no matter how impossible they are to miss. For some reason I never raised my head high enough to notice them. And the strange part is that I had stopped at this tree before to take a lot of other pictures (of its root etc) and had never ever looked up.

I wonder what else I am missing. I try to look up and all around me but I’m not always successful at it because there is just so much to see. This is what life is like. There’s so much around us that we have to keep looking to see everything. But it might, perhaps, become overwhelming since there is so much. You have to focus once you’ve figured out what you are looking for. If you’re just looking at life and nature, then you’ll have to look many times in order to find everything. But if you’re just looking for frogs, you research frogs and find out that you’re more likely to find them on the ground. So, to find frogs, if that is your interest, you don’t need to look up, right? But if you’re just looking at life from different perspectives, then you should look all around you.

Until you know what you want to focus on, that is the way you should go – just put your head on a rotating wheel like the exorcist and you’ll be able to see many things you wouldn’t have ever seen if you’re like me and always walk with your head down.

Enjoy life! We have learned how fragile life is this year.

Terrie