Sky Insights

 “You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.” ― Pema Chödrön

As I share with others that my memoir is coming out next month, people have asked me, why did you name your book See You in the Sky?

I suppose I could turn that question around and ask you, what does the sky mean to you?  How do you feel when you look up and see that vast blue landscape that appears to go on forever?

In my book I tell the story of how my father lived for years in a penitentiary. Through those years, we grew closer. We came to realize that we were the sky, an infinite, expanding sky as described in the lyrics of Somewhere Over the Rainbow… “where dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.” We came to know a reality beyond the physical, mental, and emotional confinement of prison bars.  Dad woke up day after day in a prison cell knowing something that no one or any life circumstance could take from him. No matter what the weather.

“I can see you next to me and we can walk into the sky. Each of us belongs to one another in spirit because of love,” he wrote to me in a letter.

He learned and so did I that true liberation, real freedom and peace comes from within.