I remember my mother once being asked, what was the source of her smile.

Without missing a beat, and with a sweet softness to her eyes she replied,

“Find what you love and build your world around it.”

I don’t know why I am reminded of her words today. Perhaps, inspired by my early morning walk in which the last of the Autumn leaves clung desperately to their new Winter ‘post.’

“Find what you love and build your world around it.”

And though, it’s taken me nearly 40 years to understand – I can finally say, that the greatest of blessings are never further than one soul-filling breath away.

For, embedded within each crumpled leaf…and, marking even the most brutal of winter winds.

My darlings, there is love – praying that we may one day have the courage to follow it.