a couple of days ago in my blog i asked whether any of you knew where i might find a good stand of trilium. i'm so glad i had asked that question, because within just a few days i was given the answer.

yesterday i asked the question again on a road trip with friends. then in the midst of the road trip we found the answer . . . together.

a good friend organized a day trip to celebrate another good friend's birthday (was it your 50th birthday???) we drove from all different corners of the state of VA to meet in raphine VA at the buffalo springs herb farm. since none of us had ever been there before, the founder of this feast went to find out more about what we might see/do at this herb farm. the first thing she learned was that the trilium were in bloom on the nature trail across the road. of course we did that first!

we found a creek banked by a natural setting dotted with hundreds of pale pink trilium. (trilium are a wonderful example of the trinity because they have three petals forming one flower.) it looked like God had planted them there but sometimes skillful landscape designers can fool the eye, so i'm not certain of this. at any rate, they were in full bloom and gorgeous!

on the way to raphine the friend whose birthday we were celebrating spoke about wanting to see another mutual friend who lives in another part of the state. she spoke her desire out loud. then when we got to raphine, this friend was there as a part of the party.

these two events lead me to ask one of my deepest questions out loud today. WHAT AM I MEANT TO DO NOW? in the past i've been a student, a teacher, a hands-on mom, a writer, a retail sales worker and a volunteer. i've absolutely loved each of these parts of my life.

when it was time to move to the next hopscotch block of my life, i've always felt restless. last fall when it was time for me to leave chico's i felt restless. for the last 6 months i've invented my schedule each day/week---sometimes with great creativity, sometimes not. i'm feeling restless again now. so i'm asking the question.WHAT AM I MEANT TO DO NOW?

if any of you have any insights, please share them.

and if any of you have any questions of your own that you want to speak out loud, please ask them in the comments section, by email, or whatever. just ask them because asking the quesiton might just lead to finding the answer.