Are gray skies trying to bring us down? #inspiration

As I’ve said before, we have a lot of cloudy, gray days in the Finger Lakes region. That’s where I live.

Choices

Still, we choose. How we see the cloudy skies can make us gloomy or inspired.

Plus, however we see nature is a reflection of ourselves. We project our feelings on the natural world and it reflects those feelings back to us.

Enjoy these cloud photos from the Finger Lakes and consider how we might see gray as inspiring.

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Gray Skies

Are gray skies trying to bring us down?

an exploration of our assumptions about being inspired

Somewhere beyond those gray clouds, the sun is ready to shine through.

(Try not to squint.)

Let’s be ready, too.

Feelings, nothing more than feelings

Colors do bring up feelings in us. That’s only natural.

Can you imagine if we associated joy and expectation with gray?

What we see in nature is just a reflection of ourselves.

“Mirror, mirror…”

What do we want to see in nature’s mirror?

You Are Brilliant

Some of us had hoped to see the eclipse, but the thick gray clouds hid that amazing spectacle.

What a great reminder not to hide our brilliance.

You never know when the blue will shine through.

And that’s no reason to get the blues!

Grey is beautiful

Even on gray days we can look for the bright colors shining through.

What if they are not there?

We can imagine the brightness anyway!