Living My Dash

Are you all familiar with the term...living the dash? It is based on a poem a woman wrote when she was told about a friend who was dealing with cancer. It basically speaks about the dash that is present on a tomb stone. That one little symbol is the representation of what occurred in someones life from birth to death. She goes on to write...what would your dash say about you? I recently stumbled across that poem again in an odd way. I was at the hair salon and was talking with the girl who was doing my hair. She is not my regular stylist, but she has the chair right next to hers and so we have chatted numerous times in the past. On this particular day with me in her chair, we got in to a conversation about how life unveils itself and the ability to recognize what we would initially think coincidences to actually be opportunities and how we either brush them aside or recognize them as something we should be embracing. We some how got on the discussion about the dash poem and lo' and behold, my stylist told me that the woman who wrote that poem is a client of hers. What a small world it is indeed...and although the initial reason for us getting on the conversation in the first place was of no great significance, by the time I left her chair the significance of the conversation was life altering.
I am a firm believer that God some times send angels to tell us what we are needing to be told. I left that salon appointment with a renewed sense of urgency to finally do something that I had been holding off on. That coupled with my bouncing and behaving do...uplifted my spirits so much. I eventually got home and went right to work revisiting my list of to-do's and questioning my hesitancy to launch in certain areas. Immediately I was greeted with further events that elevated my beliefs. Brief conversations here and there with numerous people all feeding the message of having faith in what you can do and knowing that you can be successful. Today I am spending the day working on my launch. I am living my dash...I don't want my dash to represent lost opportunities or half done projects...I want it to represent my ever steady need to be more, to try more to grow more. Will I be capable of doing it all...probably not. There is such a learning curve ahead...but as I have said numerous times before, I would rather fail while trying then fail by never trying. And so I ask you my dodies...are you living your dash? Stay tuned...this dash is getting ready to launch a whole new episode.