Working Together

Dear Friends,

Some time ago, my kids, a friend, my sister's family and my mama, who happened to be in town, were all taking a little meander through Rock Creek Park on a Sunday afternoon.  It was a lovely day for a meander, the weather was absolute perfection, and the company was grand.

As we walked, we found ourselves fooling around near the water under Boulder Bridge.  As teenage boys do, one of my sons and his friend began picking up the largest rocks they could find and throwing them in the water, trying to see how far they could get said rocks and how loud an echo would accompany the splash as the rock hit the surface of the water under the bridge.

The two of them, they picked up some pretty big rocks, my friends.  As I sat there, watching them and smiling, I couldn’t help but recognize just how much bigger a rock they could pick up and throw with the two of them doing the work, instead of just one.  The momentum they could get by swinging it back and forth between the two of them allowed them to move that rock so much further than either of them could have done on their own.

I was thinking about that in regards to our movement practices.  So many areas in our lives, including our movement practices, are simply easier when we are willing to work together, to allow others help us out.  We are not meant to walk through life on our own, my friends.

This week, if you need a little help from a friend, whether to move a big rock or in some other area in your life, I hope you will be a little more willing to give yourself permission to take that help, and to recognize that we all need each other to walk through life.

Have an amazing week, my friends.

Love
Krista