02/19/2025
Last night...a "dream"... holding a pair of hiking boots. Odd but ok, I will go with it! They seemed ok... until I turned them over. I was shocked! The bottoms were horribly shredded and torn with huge pieces missing. So I am just sitting there with these hiking boots. And? Ok, obviously I needed new ones. Ah..but its a "dream" so never that easy. So I sit looking at these boots...realizing how much I have walked in them. Must have been some pretty rough terrain to get beaten up that badly. And then I saw it. Felt it. Heard it. It was time to turn the shoes in...not only for new ones, but perhaps for something totally different. Because maybe the road was going to change so hiking boots were not needed or not the right choice anymore. And of all shoes to show me, why hiking boots? I LOVE hiking. Its one of my favorite things to do so why them? It made me a bit mad actually. But then finally...oh... it wasn't the hiking I was being shown. It was the comfort and safety of doing something I knew well. Something I had done over and over and over again. And even though the condition of the boots showed me that it hadn't been easy, I was ready to just ,get new ones without thinking. Because that is what we do. We sleep walk. But as I sat there, I finally realized it was time to move on. To "hang up the shoes" and go a different way. I had been told that a lot lately. I guess I had been too stubborn to really let go, hence the boots. And right then the shoes disappeared and I woke up.