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Sometimes, Life Takes Your Breath Away
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Sometimes, life takes your breath away.
Sometimes, life takes your breath away in a beautiful way. And sometimes, it feels like ‘there’s a steel knife in my windpipe,’ as Marshal Mathers would say.
On the morning I snapped this picture, I was sluggishly going to drop the kids off at school and zoom down the freeway to meet my endearing friend with Parkinson’s for her morning routine.
Color me crabby, but we all had a case of the Mondays.
I know the back-and-forth between two alarmingly different households occasionally wears on my kids’ resilient spirits. (How can it not?) Usually, we all welcome serenity in the morning car ride to school; calm, sleepy, and thoughtful energy fog the car windows on brisk Autumn mornings.
We came to a stop sign; I looked left and right, and my breath was taken from me when I saw this outside my passenger-side window.
I point out this beautiful, breathtaking world to my kids as often as possible because sometimes, what else is there besides hope?
