Be a beacon, how hard can that be?

Everyone needs hope. It's one of the intangibles neccessary in order to function as a person. Love, spiritual growth, ideals, hope... what would life be without these things? I'd say beyond boring, unfulfilling, flat - hopeless. Someone sent this postcard to Frank @ Post Secret this week and it touched me, made me think, stopped me in my tracks for a moment.

Isn't that what every good piece of art does? Stops you in your tracks? In conversation with someone dear to me recently the mark of great music came up. What is the mark of a really great song? We figured it's got to have something to do with making the listener take pause. Halting their mind and their swirling thoughts for a brief minute - long enough to perhaps spark a string of different thoughts, new ideas, fresh perspectives. I think that's the mark of good art in any form, whether that be a song, a painting, a handmade dress, even a postcard. Sometimes I need to take a break from my own head, my own life, my own present and take a short jaunt to somewhere beautiful or painful or different.

This postcard did that for me today. It transported me out of myself and into a place that reminded me that hope really does spring eternal. This weekend proved that to me many times over, this was just the icing on the cake. Mmm, icing.