Landing Softly

It’s been three years since I left my home of the previous 25 years and drove this Uhaul trailer into the great unknown.

During that time, as I laid my head down on my pillow, I heard the roaring wind and crashing waves on the Lake Superior coast and the sand-filled gales and coyotes howl in the foothills of the Chihuahuan Desert.

The winds of change have been heaving me along the highway for a long time. Now, it’s time to settle back down.

A few weeks ago I was packing up another Uhaul to make a move which I know would bring me to a lull in the vigorous wind gusts. My friend, Kevin Burrows, wrote a short piece on social media which summed up exactly how I am feeling, as the winds die down and I settle into my new home.

I am honored that he agreed to allow me to share it with you.

A Soft Place to Land by Kevin Burrows

My friends Mark Messing, Sheila Donahue and Cin Salach did a show once called Looking for a soft place to land. I have always loved that phrase. I think sometimes we are all looking for a soft place to land-one of acceptance no judgement, just a chance to be who we really are. Perhaps in our daily approach to our fellow humans we could offer that. It would be non verbal. But by your open attitude, by your welcome smile and the light of friendship in your eyes, that other person, perhaps old friend or complete stranger, would feel that safeness, and knew, indeed, that they had found a soft place to land.

Where have you been blown from? Where did you get blown to? Did you find a soft place to land?

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    Alta Grace McCullough

    I landed in a soft place when I was born into my mother’s Sanchez family: A wonderful group of human beings; loving, humorous, alive!
    Since I carry them all in my heart I am always in a soft place….

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1 thought on “Landing Softly”

  1. Alta Grace McCullough

    I landed in a soft place when I was born into my mother’s Sanchez family: A wonderful group of human beings; loving, humorous, alive!
    Since I carry them all in my heart I am always in a soft place….

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