Loyalty and Wishing

I woke up just shy of 6:00 am to the sun painting its sky blue with a deep shading of red. It’s been a week since I’ve witnessed a sunrise so beautiful and longer still since I’ve witnessed a sunrise so beautiful in Manhattan.

With the sand from one of the longest night sleeps since I’ve returned from Italy shedding itself from my eyelashes, I stretched every muscle and pushed myself onto my forearms. There resting in a state of peacefulness and vibrant beauty were my sunflowers from last night’s birthday celebration.

Since I’m a fan of symbolism and meaning behind the simplicity and wonder in all of Nature, I researched the Sunflower. The Sunflower defines loyalty and wishing. My next task was defining loyalty and wishing, because after all, a word you think you’ve known your whole life just might surprise you.

Loyalty – a feeling or attitude of devoted attachment and affection.
Wishing – to have a desire or yearning; to long; to hanker (seriously, when was the last time YOU used the word HANKER?)

You know the kind of smile you smile when you think you couldn’t possibly smile any larger and understand the phrase “smiling from ear to ear”? You know the kind of smile when you are positive every tooth in your mouth is visible far behind the confines of a room? You know the kind of smile when your cheeks actually begin to twinge with a happy ache? You think so? Yes, well my smile is bigger!

I’m blessed with the most beautiful, creative, sweet, loving, caring, intelligent, funny (and I mean slap your knee oh my God I can’t breathe from laughing so hard funny) and spiritual friends. My 40th birthday celebration spent in Riverside Park with people who make you feel good from the inside out and the outside in was DIVINE.

Loyalty and wishing. It’s easy. The devotion and affection I feel for everyone of you present (and felt in absentia) last night is far beyond measure and my desire for you all is much love, peace, joy and wholeness.

Thank you all for being in my life, for keeping me centered and strong and for loving me. I AM SO BLESSED IT’S RIDICULOUS!

Peace, Love & Laughing like a 4 Year Old,

~Michele

~ by Michele Mattia on 2008, August 2.