Hey the Rain is Gone!

Good news! The rain and ickiness are gone! That means that the skies are all clear.
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(That was the closest that I could get to a clear font that was readable.)


IS CLEAR A COLOR??????   When I was little there was a girl in my preschool class who told everyone that her favorite color was clear. At the time we thought, and told her, that clear wasn't a color. In our 4 year-old world, color was something you could see and we could never see clear when we colored our drawings or painted our pictures. Clear wasn't in our clothes or shoes or bags and lunch boxes.  Although you could paint your nails clear, none of us ever did because what was the fun

Time has passed and I have begun to rethink those days of disbelief. Now that I am thinking about it I have decided that clear is in fact a color, and a lovely one too.

Clear is brilliant in that it allows us to see other colors, clearly. For example, now that the sky is clear and doesn't have any clouds I can see the blue as far in any direction as I want to. After it rains, with all of the clear water in the air and a little sunlight, we can see rainbows.  Sometimes, after our windows have been washed, I can look through the clear glass and the world around looks brighter and better than it did just moments earlier. I am seeing clearly.

Seeing clear is cool, but seeing clearly it is really a state of mind, one that I desperately wish I could have. Wouldn't it be nice to have clear organized thoughts all of the time? To be able to know with certainty that you are going in the right direction? Have everything you need? Are choosing the right friends, the best classes, the most interesting books?

I definitely do not have a clear mind.

In my mind clarity is associated with inner peace which I also want to have. I want that badly enough that I actually have thought about taking up yoga or becoming a Buddhist or something. In the meantime, I have to ponder just what I do think clearly about...

The one thing that always brings me that sense of clarity is thinking about what I want to do with my life. To some people that might seem scary or stressful but I find it quite calming. I have an ideal future planned out for myself already.

I want to go college at William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA.  When I was there on a visit last Spring, I was able to clearly see myself walking the campus, enjoying the town, and feeling that the school and students were warm and welcoming.

Isn't it so picturesque?
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I am going to live in a really cute apartment in New York or San Francisco, with a friend, right out of college. I clearly think I will be ready for a big city after four years in a small college town. I also want to be close to a major airport ...

Dream apartment right here
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because I am going to do health care/ community service work internationally.  The idea that I have things to offer others, to help in a way that makes their lives better is a calm, clear goal.  Of course, I hope that I am going to take all sorts of cool trips to exotic places. I want more than anything to travel the world, not as a tourist, but to really learn about cultures and experience people as they clearly are.

My single life goal
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Then when I get married I am going to live in an adorable beach house in Oregon, Northern California, or somewhere in New England. I want to grow old and watch my kids grow up with people that I love dearly all around me. 

I clearly have a long way to go, to get there from where I am now.  Although the path is clear, it is colorful, and full of exciting opportunities for adventure.