The Sky Was Gray, The Sky Was Beautiful

Traveling as you all know I do, it always gives me something to write about.

This one is about Pittsburgh or actually Cranberry Township outside of Pittsburgh.  This was my 2nd visit.
I stayed at a great hotel, Hilton Garden Inn.  Great place to stay and really wonderful people, they take care of you.   Special shout out to Brian and Lisa, I have new friends for life and I cannot wait to see you again!
Lisa, beautiful girl, have fun, but take care of you!
Brian, I am so very glad to have met such a wonderful person.  You are going to have a wonderful life my friend.  And I am not jumping out of a plane!  Zip lining in Costa Rica, I am there!
Melonie girl, I love you, instant friend you really took care of me!

Several others that were wonderful and now part of the pieces of my life, Hannah, Amber, Erin, Kristin - great people.

Ok, down to creative business, very important here - let me remind you, I love to experience.  Did you get that - I love to experience, if you know me, I lost it and now it is back a hundred fold. 

Let's start with the weather, I joked in January, who goes to Pittsburgh in January on purpose.
Being a Texican and living mostly in the sun, this is the opposite.

Snow, rain, snow again and again.  Yes I have griped about the big coat I hate, walking in the slush, driving in it, and most of all, I can't wear my pretty strappy sandals!!!  Many days of gray skies, I wonder if people here don't get depressed easily.  I met many people and they are used to it just like I am used to sunny and sometimes unbearably hot.

So I decided to look at it a different way.  I was standing outside this morning, not quite dawn, it was snowing.  I did as I have talked about in the Texas rain, turned my face upwards and watched it fall.  It is not depressing but rather quite serene, beautiful and calming.

If you think from the right direction it is quite magical really.  It was quiet and peaceful, the perfect place to think and to dream. 

The air was filled with big, floating, beautiful snow flakes making their way down to join other large snowflakes with the unique purpose of blanketing the ground.

The sky was gray, but the perfect background for seeing the flakes clearly, a canvas if you will.

It was there that ideas for writing started flowing into my head.

There are so many things, places, people out there to fill that desire I have to experience.  Decide to find, see and experience the beautiful in all of those things, slow down so you won't miss it, look for it.

Being happy is my thing, but there are times when I am having those moments of kind of not happy right this minute.  I truly love those times when we stop and think and feel, be pensive and thoughtful from time to time. 

People!  Slow everything down for a minute and dream, the results are amazing.