Read Between the Lines

 A triangle of dust in a corner behind an end table glistened in a ray of sunlight with a shadow of a spider web shining like an icicle on a clear winter’s day. Life in between the lines continues to evolve and create with or without us. Those thoughts that create our experiences are waiting in corners, on the peripheries of our existence, and without our awareness, happiness may escape us before we know it.

Too often, we play “Follow the Leader” by taking the steps, moving forward day after day of the same old thing. We think we are supposed to do the “thing” our parents, teachers, and leaders told us to do. That’s right, get the job, do the business, trail the dogma of our day to day life.

We march away from being the right person, stay on time, on schedule following the cow in front of us to the barn every evening. We look for our uniform, wear our exactly right clothes to fit in, grab our expensive cellphones, and drive our look alike, same color, four-wheel-drive whats-you-ma-call-it.

When we focus on chasing what’s trending our gifts escape in between the lines?

The energy of life is continuously moving and evolving. A gust of wind carries vibrational concepts for expanding the corners of the world into new inventions and great ideas. What happens when we read between the lines and listen to the wind?

“All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.” — Napoleon Hill

Let’s take a look at what has happened to people who were listening over the last 100 years. The technical evolution of what our children take for granted all began in the corners collecting dust. Who were those people and what did they hear? Nicolaus Otto, Karl Benz, Gottlieb Daimler to name a few. Don’t forget, Octave Chanute and Otto Lilienthal?

They were all inventors. The first group, Otto, Benz, and Daimler invented gasoline engines for automobiles. In 1885, Karl Benz built the world’s first practical automobile.

Chanute and Lilienthal had a big idea, “a flying machine.” They consulted with Orville and Wilbur Wright. The Wright brothers, Chanute and Lilienthal, all came up with these great ideas at the turn of the century (1800/1900).

However, the idea of a flying machine lurked in a dusty corner in the early 1500s when Leonardo da Vinci sketched a winged contraption in his notebook.

There are more concepts, ideas, and discoveries waiting for you to find in the dust behind the table. A little bit of listening to your heart, eavesdropping to rustling leaves in the wind brings a bit of enlightenment. Keeping a bullet point journal close by creates a space to jot down notes and ideas that could lead you in a creative direction.

Now the most significant thing since popcorn came along in 1947 in a little corner of Bell Laboratories when Dr. John Bardeen, Dr. Walter Brattain, and Dr. William Shockley discovered the first transistor device. Out of the “transistor” came radios, televisions, computers, cell phones, tablets, and at this point, there is no limit to what else is yet to come.

Our world changed and continues to evolve. The spider builds a web in a corner in our minds and clogs up our inventive veins.

“Always listen to your heart, because even though it’s on your left side, it’s always right.” — Nicholas Sparks

In the moments of our numbered days, ideas float like flakes of dust drifting in the sunlight. The cosmos is calling you to take a quantum leap, read between the lines, and discover what is right in front of you. Time is slipping by, love is waiting, ideas are lurking, and strangers smile before they become friends.

Happiness is there, in between the lines.