{Find the ducks}

The other morning the girls and I went on a walk along the bay. It was incredibly foggy. It was beautiful. 

We couldn't see very far in front of us at all.

When I looked out to the bay, it was impossible to tell where the water ended and the sky started. It was all a blueish gray color. There was no way by just looking at the blue/gray matter to distinguish one from the other.

But then I noticed the ducks. There were ducks out on the water. Tiny black dots out in the vast of gray that gave me some perspective.

The ducks, calming gliding along, were on the water.  I knew there was water at least as far as I could see those ducks.

 Sometimes I have a hard time in my life distinguishing between the water and sky. Knowing where one thing ends, and the other starts. How do things fit together and how does it make sense. Gray. There's a lot of gray in life. The older I get, the more gray I see. Lines are more blurred than my younger self expected them to be. 

But, there is black and white. There are absolutes and truths, even if at times it all seems a little gray. 

So, I'm beginning to look for ducks in my life. Small black dots to give me perspective, to tell me what is water. I might not always know where exactly it switches from water to sky, but I "know enough"

 

And when the fog clears, there will be a rainbow.