Motivation From the Mitten: Stepping Stones Falls in Flint...Building Your Own Beauty

How do you create beauty where you need it in life?

Flint, Michigan is famous.  And it's not always for the greatest of things.  Built on the back of the car industry, the city itself has a storied history with an indusrial feel.  Located in the lower peninsula of Michigan, it lacks the landscapes of the north.  It's not necessarily the number one tourist city in the mitten state.

Yet here, in the seemingly mundane part of Michigan, you'll find one of the most unique and beautiful structures created.  The beautiful Stepping Stones Falls is a build of beauty where you'd least expect it.

Stepping Stones Falls is a manmade dam that hold back the Flint River to create a recreation area with C S Mott lake.  The concreate has been designed in a stepping stone pattern with pillars at various points to direct water into various patterns as it cascades to the river below.

The falls are a wonderful place to walk and take in the beauty.  In a world that is always on the move, talking a walk through the park and sitting at the bast of the falls allows viewers to take in beauty that has been built into the world.  As you take in this moment, the falls begin to shape into a way to look at life.  Life, like the water, is always moving.  What you do with it matters.

Sometimes life can be mundane and industrial.  The day to day grind can become repetivie and draining, and the landscape can begin to look flat with no end in sight.  The water comes, whether we want it to our not.  It's up to us to decide how to divert it into something beautiful.

Take time to build places in your life that create beauty from the nonstop flow of life.  Find ways to change and move moments into new directions, allowing it to cascade and flow into different places.  Above all, find time to stop and enjoy the life that you have built.  Remember the journey it took to build that life step by step, and embrace the beauty that you have created.

You only get to do life this one time.  Build your best life!

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