Pink Clouds

My 85-year-old mother is a medium. She communicates with "spirit" and she sees things. After I divorced my husband and moved back east from California, she told me she saw pink clouds all around me. It was a good sign, she said. It meant that I was surrounded by love, good things ahead. I thought it meant an easy road, finally, a life without suffering. Nope. There is no easy road. For most of us, it's hard work here.

I've learned to listen to my mother carefully. I remember that she is, after all, my mother. So I listen carefully and hear between the lines. She has been known to give me an interpretation based on her own fears, her need to protect me or her desire to control me. It has never been easy having a mother like her. Still, she has an ability that has both intrigued me and helped me.

Pink clouds. So I misinterpreted that day. I am such an optimist. And this is basically a good thing. There is more, of course. There's always more. I will share some of my life with you here. I hope you will share, too. And she was right. I am surrounded by love. We are all surrounded by love. Let it in! It makes the journey of our souls glorious and transformative.