I open the heavy door and place my bare feet on the heat soaked deck. Wet hair. Hot coffee in my hand that fills me with comfort on a slow Saturday morning. The breeze blows above me, speaking to me, but barely touching me. I hear nothing in this moment but the voice of the wind and the songs of the birds.
Sometimes I let my mind travel into wondering what the life of those birds is like. Sometimes I like to think that they’re laughing. And it brings me back to the memory of my mom and I agreeing to come back as birds in our next life. And the right corner of my mouth curls up into a delightfully innocent smile. We’d be yellow birds. She calls all of the yellow birds “Harmony birds”. And so, we decided, that’s what we’d be. Yellow, harmonious, perfectly pitched birds. It’s a conversation I’ve held on to for 22 years.
A sweet reverie that brings me back into center. A simple memory from a moment of my childhood that brings my inner and outer universe back into harmony. Reminding me that just like the songs of those beautiful yellow birds, the rhythms of my life here and now are in perfect harmony with the rhythms of the earth and the cosmos.
And just like the cosmos there must be an infinite balance of chaos and sweet simplicity. It is in the center of that, where the harmony resides. Without this divine harmony, all that we’ve ever known could never truly be.
Without the light there is no dark. Without the dark there would be no light.
In order to achieve a life of harmony, we must accept the chaos as well as the sweet simplicity. We must accept the darkness as well as the light. The embrace of that balance gives birth to beautifully harmonious rhythms. The embrace of all things – good and bad, highs and lows – is the authentic motion of living. And it is perfect.
So as I sit in the simplicity of a sun-soaked moment, I am filled with the deepest appreciation for all of the chaos that led me here. And it is that chaos that allows me to feel the deepest appreciation for this moment.
Missy Miller 
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