Just Keep Moving Forward

Now that the seasons are changing, I would like to share with you what I learned this summer with my family. The best part of my summer was in Utah with Brian, our 13 year old son, who is in boarding school there. We spent nine days in Utah camping, fly fishing and kayaking down the Green River. What I enjoyed the most was the lessons that I learned from everyone and nature. Brian and Barry had their own kayaks and Chela and I shared one. You learn real quick your strengths and weaknesses and how its important to work together to make it through the wilderness.

I learned that our son Brian, who has ADHD and Dyslexia, really is this amazing, smart, strong person who can face challenges without backing down and logically figure out his way through, or out of, tough situations. Because when you are in Mother Nature, she is the Boss. Kayaking down the river is beautiful and relaxing. But when you are suddenly confronted with strong rapids, dodging in and out of the rocks, you realize how quick you have to think, and the strength and determination you have to have because there is no turning back. But you also have to know when its time to just go with the flow because you cannot work against it, the water and Mother Nature will win.

My family, and our son, pulled through with flying colors. Brian's back at school and the rest of us back home. I feel more confident now that our children will make it through life just fine. What I have personally learned from this is nature and life are much the same. I am Dyslexic. And being Dyslexic is sometimes more than just switching letters or words around. You can have a problem with pulling the information you need from your brain. The best way to explain it is like this. Your brain is a filing cabinet of information and you learn to pull out the file when you need information and put it back for later use. Well, dyslexic people sometimes have a problem with this process (not all ).

So I have had a fear of speaking in front of people and have avoided selling my skin care line to stores. It can be really difficult and embarrassing when you have the information and the knowledge and can't retrieve it fast enough. But being in nature and facing rapidly rushing water, going around huge rocks that you barely miss by the hair on you head, hiking your camping gear through the woods to where your going to set up camp, then having to chop down wood for a fire to cook the one fish your son caught, at the end of the day, realizing all we went through and survived, with just a few scrapes and bruises which in time will heal. Now when I leave the safety of my office, I remember the strength and determination I had in Utah going down the Green River and I use that same strength and determination when trying to sell my skin care line. I may end the day with success or with a few scrapes and bruises, which I know in time, will heal, but as Mother Nature has taught me "Just Keep Moving Forward!"

Enjoy!
Sherri Bostwick

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