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March 22, 2008

Wow! Raining Wildflowers!

ME Liz Strauss wrote this at 7:59 am

Stuck in the Weeds

What a week! Sick as a dog! Seriously. I lost the battle and became all about me. I was center of the universe and the universe was ALL WRONG!!

The sun when it shined hurt my eyes.
Folks weren’t responding — gee I wonder why?
I wanted someone to fix me.

It wasn’t the universe that was wrong — it was ME.

Yesterday, I had a conversation with myself about decisions and irresistibility. It went something like this,

Aren’t you the only sick person on the planet? Aren’t you the only one who has lots to get done? If you don’t like where you are, move your location; change your disposition; get out of the center of the universe.

So I did. I just decided that the universe and my friends are already supporting me more than I was noticing. I was so right about that. Heroes and angels were all around me — clients, sponsors, family, friends, folks who hardly knew me were suggesting how to lighten my load — They weren’t asking anything in return.

Once I got out of the weeds I could see that it had been raining wildflowers!!

Wildflowers

I saw their smiles. Each made me just a little bit better. Quickly those little bits added up to big bunches. I’m back in the world of living color.

Thank you to every wildflower I know.

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7 Comments to “Wow! Raining Wildflowers!”

  1. March 22nd, 2008 at 9:11 am
    Karen Putz aka Deaf Mom said

    Have a great weekend, Liz! Spring can’t come to Chicago quick enough!

  2. March 22nd, 2008 at 10:57 am
    ME Liz Strauss said

    Hi Karen!
    I’m so with you on that!!

  3. March 22nd, 2008 at 1:24 pm
    Michael Martine, Blog Consultant said

    Hope you’re feeling better!

  4. March 22nd, 2008 at 9:25 pm
    Aruni said

    Glad you are feeling better! It was great meeting you at SXSW and sorry to hear you got bitten by the SXSW bug. So far, I’m fortunate enough to have avoided it. :-)

  5. March 23rd, 2008 at 9:41 am
    You’re All Absobloodylutely Amazing | Catherine Lawson said

    [...] Well, after I read that – a plain old thank you just didn’t seem good enough. It was clear that a bit more effort was required. So, I started again tonight and I thought I’d look to Liz Strauss’s blog for a bit of inspiration. Well, I’d been so wrapped up in my own problems that I hadn’t realised that Liz has also been struggling. And she used this wonderful post to thank all her supporters, describing them as wildflowers. [...]

  6. March 23rd, 2008 at 9:16 pm
    ME Liz Strauss said

    Thanks Michael,
    I’ve been laying low and taking comfort from the fact that I’m not the only one hit by this monster flu. :)

  7. March 23rd, 2008 at 9:18 pm
    ME Liz Strauss said

    Hi Aruni!
    At least I have no small children in the house here — do husbands count?

    I’m just keeping to lots of sleep, vitamins, good food and water, water, water. :)

    It’s slowly seeming to help. :)

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