Who knew?

The universe opens…

Excuse me? Where? How? (I wanna see this!)

Hold your horses, we’re getting there, but first….

You’re deeply entwined in a problem and the weight doesn’t sit lightly on your shoulders. Overwhelmed. What to do?

Suddenly, a door opens out of the blue. A friend calls and offers insight, a newspaper article speaks to you, a chance run-in with someone while you’re out walking, and on and on. Your world shifts a bit, releasing a measure of the weight on your shoulders. You can breathe again. No, you haven’t gone down the rabbit hole with Alice. And no, this is not woo-woo. (At least, I don’t think so…)

What is this “universe opening” thing? We’re off to the races with that question. A plethora of explanations offer themselves up for your consideration: Spirit, synchronicity, God, luck, Allah, your next-door neighbor, or that all-purpose explanation, “whatever.”

My preferred explanation is…hmmm…I don’t know that I have just one. However, I do share an innate belief in….Pete Seeger. (I don’t know, maybe I have gone down the rabbit hole?)

Pete Seeger? The late folk singer, activist, and “Where Have All The Flowers Gone” guy? Yes, that one. OK, spit it out, Jan, so folks know you haven’t gone bonkers.

A Seeger-ism:

“Who knows where some good little thing that you’ve done may bring results years later that you never dreamed of…. I honestly believe that the future is going to be millions of little things saving us.”

“Millions of little things saving us.” And each of us is one of those million little things, adding our teaspoons of care, goodness, tolerance, drop by drop, to a fertile universe. I certainly can’t quantify the number of teaspoons it takes to open the universe to innate benevolence. (Can you?) However, contributing daily teaspoons of “some good little thing” to the collective human journey can be addictive. (Don’t say I didn’t warn you.) Are your teaspoons at the ready? See you out there!