To four leaf clovers

Today I give you three loosely woven stories for inspiration.

When I was in elementary school, I used to collect four-leaf clovers and unicorns. I could sit alone in my back yard for two hours a day, scouring the clover fields for four and five leafed clovers, and I harvested hundreds over a couple of years. I suppose I believed in luck. However, I wondered how my backyard kept on offering me more and more four leaf clovers when I kept killing them all! Love is like that, you know. Whether you are giving or receiving love, it won’t run out. I sat in a park with my older son this week and picked out three four-leaf clovers in ten minutes. He’s always astounded when I do that!

Unicorns, to me, signified all the pure innocence in the world. I read books about them, had plush unicorns on my bed, unicorn calendars and paintings on my walls. Yesterday I was going through my garage and found a book my sixth grade teacher assigned me to write. She provided the hardcover and tape, and we assembled it like a real book. I called it “Unicorn in Gwanaland”. I see I was a true optimist even back then. This book is about some townspeople who were afraid of a monster living at the outskirts of their town. They called the magical unicorn to slay the beast, but the unicorn refused. He went into the monster’s cave and learned it was a gentle creature trying to harvest grass for his pregnant wife. The unicorn became the mediator between the monster and the townspeople, and at the end of the book, the children are playing happily with the monster-babies.  I suppose the moral of this book, and my entire life, is to always look for the good in people. Give people a second chance.

I have an angel wing charm on my keychain. When I set my keys on the table, even strangers are drawn to it, enough to comment that they like my keychain. Recently I did an online search for an angel I’d never heard of: Uriel. The image I found astounded me with its beauty. I saw he had three sets of wings and his heart was a circle of light; his golden hair being lifted by the wind became his halo. I printed it an put it on my wall for inspiration. Then, just two days later while in a store I found a set of three angel wing dangling earrings. How could I refuse this impulse buy? I got them; they were not expensive at all, but at the same time, priceless!

To four-leaf clovers and angel wings, to unicorns and synchronicity, here here, enjoy!