Quote Originally Posted by Mr. Silver View Post
Hey LB, tell us how you got your love for butterflys
Well, I have to admit, I don't know quite where the idea came from, but here's the first time I used them:

DH and I were on our road bikes in our old home town, on a sketchy, scary section of highway with cross winds, a poor shoulder and big trucks barreling by.

I was freaked. Super scared. Wondered if I would survive. And I sure didn't want to slow down. It's a short section and if I could just keep my speed up, it would be over soon.

Somehow I got the idea to use a visualization technique and decided that butterflies could fly around me and keep my pace, too, so I "surrounded" myself in a huge swarm of multicoloured butterflies. I managed to calm down, keep my speed up, and not get hurt.

It was cool.

I told a friend of mine later, who has a gift, and she thought that drivers who saw us would have noticed a difference between the two cyclists. I thought that was an interesting concept.

Since then, I've called upon butterflies to calm me, give me strength, help me in whatever way I need at the time; and have silently, and lately, not so quietly, offered the thoughts of butterflies to others.

Prayer isn't my thing, and positive vibes are hard to visualize, but butterflies....well, who doesn't love a butterfly?

Thanks for asking!

Hugs and butterflies,
~T~