Passionately Speaking

"What is your passion?"  "Live your passion."  "Do what you love for that is your passion."  I read these words at least 50 times a day and I so wish I could live my passion.  To travel this great country and use my camera to create beauty and memories.  To write about my travels, the people I meet, the places I see.  This is my passion.  Oh, wait!  I've been there and done that.

Not too long ago I lived my passion but was too unenlightened to realize I was living my passion!  Now that's living with blinders on.  Doesn't everyone jump in their car with less than a thousand dollars in their pocket and a dog to feed to travel across country in a car with 180,000 miles on it?  Of course the trip took me 4 months of working in order to make it back to my home base but what a wonderful adventure it turned out to be.

Passion, it's all over the internet.  I'm not the only one who wants a tiny home base, a nice car and a pocketful of cash in order to live my passion.

But in the meantime I need to make my present my passion.  I need to live in this moment of unbelievable confinement.  No, it's not a prison as some poor folks know a real prison but I feel confined being in this city.

There was a time when I found beauty all around me.  Beauty in the mundane as some would tell me.  I feel at times that I am losing this spark and need some inspiration.

I want to feel passionate about cooking and cleaning and walking the dogs.  I want to feel passionate about living in a city I detest.  Maybe I am passionate about this because I am still here.  After all I have the love of my oldest child and my only grandson and that should be enough to make me feel passion about my life everyday.  Shouldn't it?  Passionately speaking I mean.....

I may have just found it.