Ordinary Miracle

"The sky knows when it's time to snow
Don't need to teach a seed to grow
It's just another ordinary miracle today"



-Sarah McLachlan "Ordinary Miracle" 






Colin is in the kitchen making queso fresco, I have just finished making the sofrito and having a good, store bought cider. My daughter is watching Charlotte's Web as we three settle in for a relaxing evening. The simple pleasure of the night embraces me and I cannot help but smile. My new shoes fit good, my body is comfortable and comforted. Life is very good, without doubt.

Sometimes life hands us a raw deal, sometimes life is tragic without reason or explanation. Sometimes life is so full of want, need, loneliness and pain that we lose sight of what is beautiful about what we have here on Earth. Everyday, ordinary miracles surround us. A man I love made a wonder and delicious cheese. I made a beautiful and clever little girl. A brave and charming woman gave birth to me and a strong, good man raised me into the woman of conviction I am today. Three months ago I saw a double rainbow over the house.

I have a job that is hard but it is mine, makes money that feeds my family. I have a cat who seems to always know when I need his comfort and a faith that is steadfast and rich.

Our lives are ordinary miracles, if we dare to see them.
One day I will sit on my homestead in the fading light of dusk. The milk will be in, the eggs collected and my body will sing a epic of pain, satisfaction and joy. My children will make me smile and make me cry, my Clan will hold me, educated me, stress and sustain me. People who are part of my urban sphere will pass out of my reach if not my memory, new friends and clan mates will comes as the years spend themselves.

An authentic life well lived in good, hard work and joy. It is all I search for and it is all I want.

Help me.



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