I've learnt that I don't always need to defend myself or to explain myself. And I've learnt that sometimes I do.

I've learnt that truth is very much in the eye of the beholder.

I've learnt that nothing can be defined as the truth, yet holds in the moment it is perceived.

I've learnt that perceptions are subject to change, and that to capture them is to turn them into stone icons ~ and that stone can break.

I've learnt that I can't control what happens, but that by bending with the wind, it passes by.

I've learnt that I'm not always as sure footed as I'd like to be.

I've learnt that I can intellectualise or wish things were different until the cows come home and the birds fly in to roost, but it doesn't change what is before me.

I've learnt that a full cup cannot receive ~ that preconceptions are a death knell to possibilities.

I've learnt that opening myself allows life to flow through me.

And I've learnt that all these learnings, and the me that has learnt them all, can collapse at any moment ~ just and completely, ephemera, enjoying the taste of life.

I've learnt to smile ~ a lot :-)

Swaying in the breeze ~ for now