02/20/2022
“Wanna know the most boring conversation in the history of boring conversations?” Startled, I opened my eyes to see a man on a bike stopped right in front of me pointing to a couple taking a stroll pushing along a baby carriage. After some banter, he mentioned it was a beautiful day and I was sitting on my phone. I remarked I wasn’t on my phone, I was sitting with my thoughts and thanked him for the interruption.
“Serendipity” he smiled and rode off into the sunset. Like, literally rode off into the setting sun with a gorgeous orange backdrop consuming his image as he biked off.
You see, today I was sitting in Lady Bird Lake contemplating all the actions, thoughts, and choices that ended up landing us living in Las Vegas. We had a fork in our future around this time last year that opened us up to living anywhere in the US and somehow we landed in Vegas.
Our main contenders were Austin, Sedona, or Vegas. Vegas made sense, Austin and Sedona are magical, but Vegas just made sense. Sitting in the grass (a luxury I never realized I would miss until Vegas became home) soaking up the sun and grounding in at Lady Bird Lake I was sitting with my thoughts and observing them float by, starting to should all over myself. A stillness began to consume me as I waited for source to reveal itself, and she came as a man on a bike.
The blend of chance being at that exact moment in this exact timeline literally takes me back in awe. So, today I feel the urge to encourage you wherever you are, whatever your facing, any “should haves” replaying in your mind- know that you are exactly where you should be in this exact moment in this exact timeline. Challenges and problems are always opportunities and expansion in disguise.