Image captured in Tucson, Saguaro National Park.

Listen, there are so many sounds. There are sounds in every color: blue and green sounds soft, growing, water, these are nurturing sounds. There are black, grey and even red sounds, they are loud sounds, noise, cars, horns. There are yellow sounds, happy bird chirps, children’s voices, a dog snoring. All these colors, all these sounds they are the background of our lives, part of the tapestry of them. Beautiful, irritating, wonderful. Listen so you can hear the sounds, the layers, what are they? What is the soundtrack of your neighborhood, what about your workplace.

I am feeling fragile right now, because I have let someone take a hold of me and erode my dreams, hinder my passions and make me doubt myself. It is my fault that I have let this happen, but knowing that doesn’t take the pain away. I feel over full, stretched too taught, ready to break. I need to go back to my center, to listen to myself. I just keep asking why is this happening? Is it more then letting someone hurt me, is there something else at stake? What is there to learn? Is this the wrong path that I am on? All these questions, and no answers, to much noise and also to much silence.