"Twinkle in my eye"

Not long ago, i met a wonderful woman who mentioned that she had a "twinkle in her eye."  I hadn't heard this line before, but i have to admit, it grabbed me like a freshly brewed expresso in the early morning hours..    I loved it.  As I hacked around the golf course the next day with my dad, I kept thinking about that line, usually after a good shot, mind you.  ( we can talk about the bad shot reactions another time ) Let that twinkle grow bigger and brighter by the day, I thought.  In her.  In all of us. We all want this, but what exactly are we talking about?

Franciscan Priest, Richard Rohr, said it perfectly : "Once you learn to live as your true self, you can never be satisfied with this charade again: it then feels so silly and superficial."

Our true nature is less about searching for that perfect "solution" that remains external, as i once thought,  but more about revealing our true nature from within.  it's like dusting away those cob webs in the attic, and discovering something you never knew even existed.  and like a rational person, you take this item to the folks on the antique road show and they tell you it's worth a lot of money.  you don't always no how to handle this startling news.  sometimes, you laugh saying "what, this old thing?  and sometimes you cry because you know whatever price they gave you, it's worth 100 times more.  that dusty box filled with sparkling sparkles had always been there, waiting patiently for your arrival.

And because i love food, i love to envoke food metaphors in my blogs. if we look at the very definition of who we are in terms of buffet, do we limit ourselves to one particular part of the table.  Oh, I am a Mash Potatoes GUY for sure or I am definately those strawberry cupcakes.  YEah, i love sweets.  that's my end of the table.  that's where i am most comfortable  Asparagus! Yuck.  Greens make me nervous.  Yes, this sounds silly of course, but we limit ourselves all the time, myself being the biggest offender.  sometimes, we know when the invisible barriers go up..  other times, we are completely oblivious.  The familiar self always keeps us closer to vegetables if that's our natural way, but we must acknowledge that for us to discover our true nature, one cannot rely on the familiar self to do that. it is after all, the familiar self that got us there in the first place.

so maybe that twinkly in they eye isn't so far off.  maybe even if we are mash potato people by design, we are open to trying out those greens.  after all, it's the greens that lead us to the most amazing discoveries.

Until next time,