Photo Quote de jour

So, I'm driving up the driveway yesterday admiring the mother of all pine trees and something catches my eye. Funny how that happens. Mama Pine had dumped a bumper crop of pine cones this year. Some were swept up for kindling, some flattened by tires, some awaited new life as baby pine trees. But one pine cone stuck out as the proverbial sore thumb. There it lay stuck, caught on a twig, suspended on it's journey to the ground. The metaphor was to rich to pass up. Every day, things that catch my eye are captured by my third eye AKA my camera. The images ping pong around my brain like a pinball wizard on crack and (hopefully) inspire words to go with them. That's what you see here most days.
Seeing the lone pine cone frozen in space made me think of a client who thinks she's stuck in a dead-end situation. The situation is not the issue. The issue is her perception to to her perceived problem. The pine cone is the metaphor to her issue. The more she focused on the issue, the more trapped and stuck she felt. My job was to walk her around the pine cone, to see it from every angle and show her options. A fresh perspective opened the space and freedom to choose a new action. With her own insight, she realized the pine cone could be freed with a brisk wind.