Tip your head back and look up at the sky

January 16, 2019Posted in anxiety, books, favourite quotes, gratitude, health, hope, life, moments of beauty, nature, Other people's words about ..., reading, resilience, staying humble, staying true, the sky, What I love about ...Tagged anxiety

Other people’s words about … the sky

Axel … breathed out, trying for calm. He tipped his head back, looked at the sky, wide and empty of trouble. His heart slowed. The moment passed.

From ‘Shell‘
by Kristina Olsson

solitary pine beneath the clouds (horizontal)

Oh, that beautiful sky …

2 thoughts on “Tip your head back and look up at the sky”

Eliza Waters says:

January 17, 2019 at 07:37

Lovely pix! The sky is an anchor for me, too. No matter where you are, it is as well. There is something reassuring in its constant presence.

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1. Rebecca Burton says:
  
  January 17, 2019 at 12:37
  
  What a lovely turn of phrase, Eliza — ‘the sky is an anchor’. I love your wording because anchors represent being grounded, attached to the land, and yet the sky represents the opposite, infinity and the heavens, if you know what I mean?
  And yes, I think that as far as anxiety management techniques go, simply stopping to look up at the sky — wherever I am, whether I’m inside a building, in a street, by the beach, in the bush; and whatever the time of day — is honestly the most effective one I know.
  
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