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<\/p>\nHappy Sunday, Journeyer,<\/p>\n
This past week I opened the microwave door to find my lunch bowl of oatmeal boiled over. Already running late, I could easily have gotten all upset about the necessity to now do a little cleaning before I returned to work.<\/p>\n
There might have been a second of irritation before I noticed the artistic patterns that formed in the boiling over.<\/p>\n
Life is like that, isn’t it, Journeyer?<\/p>\n
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It is that rock bottom that cracks open old habits and incites change.<\/p>\n
It is the breaking open of our hearts that inspires us beyond imagination and often becomes the representation of what we do want.<\/p>\n
[Tweet theme=”basic-white”]Our losses big and small are a sort of art that creates our own uniqueness and, ultimately, the portrait of our life.[\/Tweet]<\/p>\n
Art feeds my happy, Journeyer.<\/p>\n
Everywhere we look we can see the art of life spilled over.<\/strong><\/p>\n Our trees have shed their leaves, filling the air and our yards with brilliant color.<\/p>\n Cornucopias are spilling forth the bounty of our harvests.<\/p>\n Though I am torn about the commercialism of a Christmas season that stores roll out before our fall feast, I love the bright and cheerful landscapes that exist all around.<\/p>\n And I feel the spirit of the holiday unfolding.<\/p>\n Each event is a brushstroke on the canvas of our lives.<\/p>\n The brighter colors of my week include a bright patch of yellow wildflowers rising up between a pile of dried up leaves on one of my morning walks.<\/p>\n A trip to visit my birth family and to join in the celebration of one of its members.<\/p>\n Meeting new people and connecting with old.<\/p>\n Making the decision to purchase a plane ticket when I couldn’t find anyone to make the long drive with me.<\/p>\n Hugs. This morning in the airport I accidentally left my credit card in the kiosk.<\/p>\n When the TSA representative handed it to me he smiled and said “That’ll be a million dollars.”<\/p>\n “Afraid I don’t have that, but what I can give you is a million dollar hug.” I was pleasantly surprised when he accepted.<\/p>\n Laughter.<\/p>\n Song.<\/p>\n Sunrise.<\/p>\n Sunset.<\/p>\n And the dawning of each new day.<\/p>\n Oh, and You, Journeyer. Your stories and outreach and trust in me is an honor and a privilege I feel blessed to witness.<\/p>\n Thank you for connecting and sharing, for together we are neighbors in grief and allies in healing.<\/p>\n And healing feeds my happy.<\/p>\n Until we meet again, yours in hope, healing, and happiness,<\/p>\n Happy Sunday, Journeyer, This past week I opened the microwave door to find my lunch bowl of oatmeal boiled over. Already running late, I could easily have gotten all upset about the necessity to now do a little cleaning before I returned to work. There might have been a second of irritation before I noticed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":379953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1034,1035,1374],"tags":[316,1518,113,317,36,161,14,285,19,38,1689,1181,46,728],"class_list":["post-379952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-happy-happens","category-mental-health","category-relationships","tag-happyhappens","tag-art","tag-family","tag-finding-happiness-in-your-day","tag-grief","tag-happiness","tag-healing","tag-hope","tag-inspiration","tag-loss","tag-oatmeal","tag-the-five-facets-of-healing","tag-the-five-facets-philosophy-on-healing","tag-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/The-art-of-life-spilled-over-Annah-Elizabeth-quote-feature-image.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Annah](\"https:\/\/annahelizabeth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Annah-Elizabeth-Signature-300x52.jpg\")
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