06:30 awoke me to the sound
of water gushing out of the overflow spout on the rain barrel outside my
bedroom window. L This is the first day of the
New Liskeard Fall fair newliskeardfallfair.ca Ah the clatter of hooves on the pavement, the bustling
school kids sticky with cotton candy and of course the sloshing and slopping
sound of wet sneakers trudging through the fair grounds.
This is what
a fall fair is all about. The smell of
farms in town. The bawl of that cow that just really wants to be back in the
pasture digesting lunch. The carnies
roaming the street at all hours searching out the elusive Tim Hortons. And,, of course,, RAIN!!
But the rain
never seems to dampen the spirit of a good fall fair. The show just simply goes on.
This too is how events unfolded for me this week. (and a big shout out
of thanks to that inner fall fair spirit in me too). I had been waiting for some news this week. News that I’ve been working on for nearly 2
years. I got the news, but it wasn’t
what I wanted. –insert rain cloud here-.
It was a set back for sure, but you know, the silver lining showed through. Not an hour later a little glimmer of
hope. A ray of sunshine like a pin
prick through the darkness. The goal
seeming so lofty that by the time the ray shot through the distant clouds it
had cast a much wider glow way down here in my reality. And the show appears to
be going on again. The silver lining in
the big dark cloud folding back a little corner of itself to expose the shiny
possibilities of what’s to come.
If there is a
lesson to be had in any of this for me it has to be about looking for silver
linings. Rain or Shine the fair will
happen this weekend. Kids will still be
flush with sugar, teenagers will be gazing into each others eyes as their
cheeks dis form with the G forces on the sizzler, prize quilts will be displayed
proudly with big shiny ribbons pinned onto them. It is what it is! Its
Fall Fair Weekend. The pursuit of
personal betterment is what it is too.
A little rain isn’t going to hold me back either.
