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Hi Cedar,


It is for Halloween..... (for I will be a witch today)

In addressing our FOO, on the patterning and the roles that have been written for us, as well as imagery on each of us becoming unto our own.

We are wearing the hat.

Our "hats" have always been there, deep inside the closet of our subconscious.


The roles have been written in the indelible ink of our memories,

in the memories of our FOO, and those we have forged relationships with.

These roles did not allow us to wear our hats.


When we step out of those roles so long ago written

to claim ourselves

how puzzling we are to those around us who think they have pegged us.

What a mystery we become to those around us

who are accustomed to our responding a certain way.

Who would have us

be so meek, pliable and nice

that we would forget

about our own selves.


What a mystery we have become to ourselves,

as we begin to see ourselves

through our own eyes, wide open

and shed the glasses of yesterday

the eyeglasses

of those who would have us be

what they want us to be.


This indelible ink is that we can't erase our past.

That is unchangeable.

Removing the glasses that others have prepared for us,

trusting in our own vision,

our own capability for sight,

we peer truthfully into our past

and learn from our reactions in the old role

to develop into our own.

Then something marvelous happens,

we find insight

and understanding

and change

and growth.

We begin to see

the once before

unimaginable

endless

possibilites.

We dig through the closet.

We find our hats.


It is magic

this seeing of ourselves.

In the knowing who we truly are, who we truly can be.

And so we change.

We remove the glasses completely.

We wear our hats

of empowerment.


Those who have viewed us for so long

Continue to see us,

as they would have us see ourselves.

When we appear

with our "hats"

they are completely

utterly

confounded.


This wearing of the hat

is a reminder

to ourselves and those around us

that in not only us

but in everyone

there is

magic.

Empowerment.


We wear the hat.

Our hats that were there all along

but we were not permitted to wear.



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