I love the quote "When you can't change the direction of the wind, adjust your sails" (H. Jackson Brown Jr.). But in order to adjust your sails you have to have a mast, and in this cast a boom. Without our skeletons, our muscles and skin would be lumps on the floor. It is the push and pull of the muscles against and around our bones that give us shape and movement. And our skin acts as the protective covering over it all. Our boat also has an unseen skeleton that braces all of the boards that make up the hull of the boat. Additionally, however, the mast and boom are skeletons that hold the sails. With that spine firmly in place the sails control the wind and allow the master sailor to guide her home, even in the worst of storms.

I'm working on strengthening my own physical spine and nervous system so that I don't experience as much pain in my body. Additionally, I can work to strengthen my mental, emotional, and spiritual spines so that when the storms of life assail, I will have the strength to simply adjust my sails and return home.