Full Circle – Finding Peace After Divorce.

I’m sitting in my daughter’s house, dog-sitting her beautiful pup. All the windows are open, and the breeze carries in the sounds of the world outside. A small plane hums overhead, the birds are chirping and I can hear the distance squeals of the neighborhood children. Instantly I’m transported back to my own childhood.

I remember lying in the grass of my old backyard – eyes searching the skies above me, racing to see how fast I could find the plane before it dipped behind the few clouds that dared to mar the blue perfection laid out above me. Those afternoons were pure simplicity. I was able to erase anything that brought me sadness or disappointment. 

It was a peaceful time, and in many ways, those moments taught me how to ‘be’. To laugh freely. To believe that life was easy and fun.

Now, sitting here with the dog at my feet and that familiar hum in the air, I’m reminded of what it means to return to that simplicity. To bring those feelings forward into the present. To surrender to them. To live easy. Laugh easy. Love easy.

Life doesn’t have to be perfect, or grand, or non-stop excitement. Sometimes just sitting in a quiet moment clears away the cobwebs and lets us see what’s real. And what’s real is this: we get to choose. We get to say ‘yes’ or no’. We get to throw away what (and who) doesn’t serve us. We get to leave toxic people behind. We get to build—or in the case of divorce, re-build—on the foundation of peace, joy, gratitude and freedom.

And maybe that’s the true meaning of full circle: returning not to the chaos, not to the pain, but to the beautiful ease of who we once were before life got complicated. Starting over doesn’t mean starting from nothing—it means starting again with the wisdom of everything you’ve lived through.

So be gentle with yourself. Be honest. And when you forget, look up. The sky is still there. That plane may just be tucked behind the clouds for a second but it’s still there. And so is the version of you that knows how to live, laugh and love…easily. Honor Her.