It's time to start planting those roses...and daffydills... and anything else you can get your hands on.... I say this metaphorically. Plant those seeds. You never know when they'll grow to something beautiful and enriching for your life.... be it friends, acquaintances, hobbies and interests... anything you always wanted to do -- including the hard stuff like cleaning out closets, going through paperwork, calling for a financial planner to help you with your scattered lifestyle (talking to myself here).

And I mean "scattered" in the most forgiving way. Because all that energy that goes out to here, there, and everywhere comes back to me, if not in tangible ways, then in increased satisfaction in life, feelings of connection with life, being on the pulse of life.

But sometimes you gotta rein in that energy and take stock of what you want to leave to this world after you're gone. What you want to be remembered for (if that's not too schmaltzy). Definitely what you want to stake a claim to in your life -- especially if you've felt - as I have at times -- like you've been drifting. I know what Mae West said: I used to be Snow White, but then I drifted. Well I don't mean it like that, ha, ha. I mean pick your constellation of things, your constellation of people, places, and activities and bless them. Labor for them, give yourself to them, stand up for them. Then you'll be known. And not just as the volunteer for one time last year or the year before, someone whose name we can't remember or the employee that seems nice, but what ever happened to her, etc. I'm talking about deciding who and what you want to be "for" and then going after it. Staking your claim, not matter what you think "they" will say or "they" will think, or even what you might think in your self-doubting times...

There are bright lights that are sometimes hidden in the darkest night and you can't see them with a searchlight, but you can with a perceptive nature and loving heart. You learn where they are by how you feel when they're not there. And you come to trust them and remember them and look toward them to lead your way.