A Blog by Adrienne Wallace

I learn a lot about how we as human behave from observing other forms of life. We all can. I must share an ongoing observation that provides a great study of people and the virtue of honor. Fish reveal their genius in water. We would not put fish in a bucket of sand and expect them to swim. They are not made for sand. In the same way a fish has responsibility that when claiming to be one and presented with water....it swims. That fish must swim. This is especially true if it claims over and over to be what it is called. It must do what fish are called to do or in truth it is what ..I dead fish. If fish cannot and don't swim and does not behave as it should, it is essentially just bait and prey for the bigger and better of the sea that it finds itself amongst. Fish are often observant. Learning from the bigger and better fish of the sea. When a fish is unsure but dedicated to honoring its being, it humbly joins a school of fish and creates a movement by developing authentic knowl...

I was looking at my hands today and I thought deeply about life. I use them ( my hands) for everything. I gather them in stillness beneath my bowed head daily to pray. I have slept with them beneath my cheek at night and I have come awake with them numb. The waking thought for me as I try to shake the sensation back into them is that I must find something to hold on to. Is sensation a metaphor for life? Maybe, I've tried to shake life back into them. Find something? Well look first for what is worthy of holding on to and then reach ..use your hands; grasp it tenderly, directly, take it. Unless there is so much fun and learning in not using your hands. Just today,I found myself putting one of my beautiful hands across my mouth to mute my laughter. I immediately pulled it away. Laughter is part of my intention. I have used my hands to design my life. To write my thoughts. To commute myself in my vehicle to places...safely. I use them to gather and usher a person towards reassurance, ...