Crystal's Mystical Journey

Do you remember the sound bite that was popular a few years ago? Some people heard "Laurel" others heard "yanny." It was super annoying and I was upset at myself for falling for the hype and listening to it. It did indeed, boggle my mind. I clearly heard the one sound and my son clearly heard it another way. Which is crazy, given that Laurel and Yanny are two completely distinct sounds. When things like this happen, where many of us are lured in and take a part of "fad hype" I often wonder, "why did this come?" Like the wedding dress that was popular for raising the question "is it gold, or is it blue?" while back. SAME THING! People squabbled over the "fact" that it is "white" and others were upset because CLEARLY it was "blue!" We could, of course, argue that different screens give off different colors and all that technical stuff, or we could look at the bigger picture. What if the reason we were...

I have a tight family. It may be a hispanic thing, but we are there for each other and tell each other our lives and lean into the love the other has to offer. In December 2017 my grandfather passed away. 9 months later his son succumbed to his fight with cancer. 7 months later my biological father died. Later that month a cousin was killed in a car accident. Two months after that one of my best friends of 22 years ended our close friendship due to their spouse. Two months later my nearly 15 year marriage ended. Three months after that my mother fell critically ill during the same week my divorce was finalized. Two months later my ex-husband moved out of the house and the next week my ailing mother moved in. All of these Mountains, whom I'd leaned in to for emotional support, for moral support...for ears and hearts and arms that hug and hold- were gone. My grandfather, Uncle, ex-husband and Mom were giant mountains in my life. Big, strong personalities who fit in to the puzzle tha...