Hummingbird Soul

21 grams.

The weight of a hummingbird.

According to one scientist it is also the weight of the soul.

I thought of this when my Father passed away last Friday morning from complications due to his prostate cancer. My Father was a retired Marine Colonel and when I thought of him, I always pictured eagles soaring through lofty heights and majestic mountains. I never thought of the hummingbird, so fragile and small, wings beating a trillion times a minute. But the other morning I reached across the boundary of physical resemblance and thought about the symbolism of this tiny little bird and that if it rested on my hand I would barely even feel it. The hummingbird, so light and small, travels tens of thousands of miles in it's lifetime in migration patterns, moving from one place to the next, gathering energy and little nectar molecules from flowers everywhere and then redistributing them far and wide. My Father did that. He had an amazing and expansive life and it touched a vast array of people all over this big wide world.

We do that.

This is what Etsy Project Embrace Team is all about, reaching out to everyone who has been touched by cancer, into every corner of this planet. We are a REAL Team made up of beautiful individuals who are not focused on self serving motives and congratulatory fluff. The word "I" doesn't come into my thought patterns when thinking of Project Embrace, rather, it's the word "WE".

We move fast and we move strong when one of our members is in distress or has a family member or friend who needs our help. We do this by turning in, to our private reserves of strength and courage, love and serenity, and then sending them out to those in need through whatever means works for us as individuals: prayer, meditation, blessings, positive energy vibes, uplifting thought patterns. Cancer is a horrendous disease and it is spreading. Theories abound on why this is and what the causes could be, whether environmental toxins, chemicals in foods, genetics, a combination of any, all, none of these. It's a bit overwhelming and can be very negative so I turn instead to the positive side of the coin, the "Life-Full" side.

Like the little hummingbird, rapidly moving from here to there, across all the miles, WE, Team Etsy Project Embrace, move in unison with a common goal of Service and Hope . We nourish and bring light to those with cancer, like Laura and Cait, who stared it right in the eyes, moved through the fear and darkness, and came out the other side cancer FREE, and We Rejoice in this. We comfort and cherish those those who have family and friends struggling with this disease, and those who are left behind when someone passes to go on their next journey, like my Father, and We Celebrate the Triumphs of that person, living or deceased. New advances are being made every day in the fight against cancer and We Support and Revel in this. We do ALL of these things by reaching into the soul of who each of us is, gathering up our immense amounts of Hope, Compassion, Strength, Courage and Love and spreading them wide and unobstructed to all in need.

And that is what this is ultimately all about. The rest falls away, lightly, softly and gracefully, like the beating of hummingbird's wings across the Universe.

My love and gratitude to ALL of you for these gifts you have given me.....
And an especially huge Thank You to Kim for all the hard work you put forth to create this incredible Blog!
WE, of Etsy Project Embrace, are on a great and wondrous, hopeful, beautiful and loving journey together......{{{{{{{HUGS}}}}}}}}}.....
xoxo
Kristin