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LIFE! Almost unexpected today, there is joy, awe and deep reverence to all which is. THANK YOU! Also to you all who share here and who come to visit. With you all, with my dear friends, loved ones and kindred hearts, and included all animals and plants and nature in general, life and living in this most wonderful world feels just blissful today, and this happened completely unexpected. Sometimes it seems a question unfolds its hidden beauty, doesn´t it? May you all have a peaceful nights sleep and joyful, beautiful sweet dreams and a smile on your face when you wake up to the new day.
Thank you Ose.
Thank you, Ose!
Wishing beautiful days and nights to you as well.
Right now, I have learned about a new local museum for which I am hoping to be a volunteer greeter. It’s a museum about the history of my home town which is the oldest city in the state of Kansas. This is an exciting adventure for me and I choose to celebrate it!
This sounds like a fun opportunity! Happy for you, Carol!
Excited for you Carol 🙂
You would be a wonderful greeter, Carol, and a great asset to the museum with your knowledge of your home town.
This is very exciting!!
i celebrate my amazing children and the bond that has deepened in the past few weeks. i celebrate the love of friends and our community who give me the energy to get out of bed when my grief feels too heavy to bare. i celebrate the beauty of the trees swaying outside my window. and i celebrate love and faith which powers it all.
It’s good to see you here, Carly.
Sending love to you and your family.
I can celebrate
sleeping the night
and waking up this morning . . .
I celebrate my loving husband,
and Sophie and Phoebe
and breakfast and coffee.
I celebrate the sun,
the birds’ nests on my porches,
and the plants waiting to be tended to . . .
that my son speaks to me
and has a care for me somewhere in his heart.
I celebrate the simple things,
my simple life,
my simple desires,
my simple gifts.
It is up to me
to make the most of it
and not squander any of it . . .
I am responsible
for what I make of my life. ♥
Always enjoy your form of scribing dear Sparrow.
♥
Beautiful, Sparrow. Your posts are all poetry.
You could have a blog, or be part of a blog group. . Is that a thing? a blog group?
Your writing could be read and could touch many.
Maybe Barb could help you with this, if you are interested, since she has her own blog.
I love the things you celebrate, Sparrow. I can celebrate these things too.
I don’t know about blog groups,
dear Mary,
and I don’t know much about blogs . . .
it fulfills me
to write for myself
and to explain and make clear
things to myself,
and it pleases me
if someone else
knows what I’m talking about
and understands,
or feels moved somehow . . .
thank you for your kind words.
They mean a lot to me. ♥
♥️
Your writing is very poetic, Sparrow, and I love reading your posts. If you wanted to start blogging it would make your words available to those who have the link. They wouldn’t have to be part of this community.
I’ve been saying I wanted to be a writer since I was about five years old so blogging gives me an outlet. I appreciate the folks here who read my links. I’m not actively marketing either of my blogs or trying to turn them into income so it’s pretty relaxed. I do think of them as a bit of a public journal for my children when I’m gone so there’s that aspect.
The software platforms are simple and free. I use Blogger for my personal blog, WordPress for my bike blog, and couldn’t tell you now why I’m on two different platforms. I made the decisions too long ago and Blogger may have been the first easily accessible one I ran across.
Thank you for this information,
dear Barb . . .
I will think on what you have said
as you seem to have a lot of experience with this. ♥
Great information, Barb!
♥️
I can celebrate that I can walk. I’ve had my right hip replaced and have had problems with my left knee since I was in my thirties. My right hip is so much better now. And my left knee is still bothersome, just bothersome, not extremely painful. So I keep doing my physical therapy exercises and I rub my knee for several minutes before walking. And then it’s usually okay. So after finishing this post I will go to the gym and walk 2 miles. My husband is my walking partner, but he’s not walking today. So I’m always proud when I walk by myself, because it would be easy to skip a day when he does. So right now I am celebrating my ability to walk and my willingness to do so for exercise. Thank you for the question. May everyone find something to celebrate today! Peace, my friends, peace.
Ah,
dear Mary . . .
I am your sister in hip replacement,
as I had one a year and a half ago
(same hip).
It saved my mobility,
and I know you are grateful for yours.
I also have troublesome knees
(same one).
I celebrate walking with you. 🙂
I would be honored to be your sister in anything, dear Sparrow.
♥
Being home after a really great trip back to our former hometown. Two-part celebration!
The trip was really fun and I did so many things. Saw friends, spent time with family, went on a bike ride with an informal women’s bike/social group my best friend and I co-founded years ago that’s still rolling and had locally made ice cream afterwards, went to the local Pride rally and (briefly) No Kings (someone in our group had a bad back and we needed to leave), ate great food, walked a ton, came home with a new cookbook featuring chefs from the city including a friend of mine who died a few months ago so when I opened it up and saw her name and photo I had to get it.
Being home is wonderful! I got to sleep in my own bed, have my morning routine with my sweetheart making coffee for me, pet the cat in my lap, appreciate how much the garden is exploding. My husband sent me pictures of the berries he was picking while I was gone. Strawberries have been coming on for 3 weeks; now they’re joined by the golden raspberries that are the first in a mixed bed of several varieties, and tayberries that are producing like wildfire after I gave them a serious pruning in the winter. Today’s fresh berries for eating, plus the jams and preserves of the future!
Your berries sound fabulous, Barb!
You’ve had a busy weekend,
dear Barb . . .
much to celebrate. ♥
There is much to celebrate. I can celebrate this new day.
I can celebrate the fact that I am alive and healthy. I can celebrate the inspiration I feel from brave and peaceloving activists such as Rivera Sun and Valarie Kaur.
I celebrate that I can feel my dental work is healing, and I’m creatively having ideas for meals besides jello! I celebrate the reprieve in rain yesterday and I got some yard work done. And celebrate isn’t quite the right word, I’m deeply grateful that two of the four ppl seriously shot in MInnesota are alive and healing and the manhunt is over for the suspect.
I can celebrate that I have gone a whole year without alcohol!
❤️ dear Jenifer.
Congratulations!
That’s so great Jenifer! Congratulations!
No small feat,
dear Jenifer . . .
congratulations! ♥
Congratulations, Jenifer!!
I can celebrate that I have been gifted a new day. 🙏🏻
I am not in much of a celebratory mood these days as my oldest & dearest friend passed away a few days ago. I am grieving the loss of her in my life. Right now I feel a big void, a deep deep emptiness & sadness.
In a span of 4 years I have lost all of those closest & dearest to me, my support system, my friends & my family.
I feel hollowed out. 😔
You are loved and held by this community
“Such a long, long time to be gone
And a short time to be there” 🙏
Hunter/Lesh
My deepest condolences on the loss of your dear friend. I am sorry for all the losses you have experiences the last 4 years. My thoughts and prayers are with you.
Please feel embraced and held, dear PKR, if you allow. My heart is with you and at your side.
I am so sorry, PKR.
That’s a lot to grieve.
I grieve for you,
dear PKR,
for this series of losses you are experiencing,
and hold you in my heart
as you move through this part of your life.
I celebrate though,
that you had the gift of these people
for as long as you did.
Namaste . . . ♥
PKR, I’m so sorry for the loss of your friend. I know your heart has been hurting the past few years. I am sending you love and a big virtual hug.
I am so sorry to hear of all the profound loss you have been experiencing, PKR! Sending love ♥️
I’m so sorry you’re experiencing such profound loss right now. My heart is with you PKR, sending you lots of love you way.
I celebrate that my muscles propelled me out of bed. I have a scheduled activity to look forward to. I can write and read. I can smile at the posts and be grateful for this site.
That I woke up to this new day. That life is unfolding so beautifully. That I am partnering up with a company where I have the opportunity to teach more. That my new course opened up and I can set another new foundation for growth on this yoga path I love being on.
That’s wonderful, SunnyPatti! ☀️
Thank you, Mary! I am feeling it 🙂
Sunnypatti, it’s nice to be able to do something we’re passionate in. That enthusiasm shows the “Get to” instead of “Have to” mentality I vaguely remember Elizabeth or Mary eluding to before.
Yes, I get to share a practice that I love so much – yoga! And I love learning more about it and all of the possibilities where it can be used to help people grow and heal. I get to do this, and I’m so grateful!
I have some sourdough buns in the oven for hot, fresh breakfast. Can’t wait to have one.
Oh, yum, Drea!
Sounds delicious, Drea.
They were quite a treat, Loc.
I’ll be right over 🙂
Yes!!
Me two!!!😊
I would love that, you two!
Yes, that would be fun.
I can celebrate the happiness of my children. I can celebrate an opportunity that wasn’t given to me at work because it gives me some needed time to concentrate on something else this summer. It wasn’t my path and I am okay with that.
I can see that you are open to something new.
That inspires me, Deann!!!
It is wonderful and wise,
dear Deann,
to be able to embrace an unexpected path.
I applaud you. ♥