Week 2.1: Waxing and Waning

Week 2.1: Waxing and Waning was taken on one of the many fabulously gorgeous summer evenings we have here in the great southwest. I love our skies here. They take my breath away on a regular basis.

This quote takes my breath away, too:

"Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven." ~Joaquin Miller

So, in thinking about the end of the day...my favorite time of day and what it represents to me on the grandiose scale of things, I have to say that I love the idea that I'm done. I love the sense of completion.

When I see the sun sink over the horizon...when I see the purple creep into the sky...when I see the stars brighter...I realize I am one day closer to being where I'm supposed to be than I was at the beginning of the day. Forget the fact that things might not have gone as planned. Never mind what I meant to get done but didn't. The day is over. No going back.

And there's no "do over." I don't want a "do over" anyway. I want to live life in a way that I'm satisfied even with the imperfect. I want to learn from the things that didn't get done...or were done wrong. Tomorrow I'll be better. Tomorrow comes either way. Tomorrow the sun waxes again full of expectation and warmth, radiance and strength, old and new challenges.

But at the close of each day I get to be done. And I'm glad. To lay it all down. To surrender. To trust that tomorrow will have enough of whatever it is I need with a twist of completely unexpected...In the meantime, I get to sleep. To visit my favorite place in all of the world: bed.

May I be content in both the Waxing and the Waning as I head toward whatever it is I am meant to be. I'm so glad I've had so many of you in the Waxing and Waning of my first Project 52. And I'm looking forward to what this next year brings!