Small and Wonderful Things . . .

 

 

   

 

"The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside from a generous hand. But who gets excited by a mere penny?...It is dire poverty indeed when a man is so malnourished and fatigued that he won't stoop to pick up a penny. But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted with pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days. It is that simple. what you see is what you get." ~Anne Dillard  

 

A few of the small and wonderful things which bring untold joy into my life.   It's the small things in life which truly mean the most.  Simple abundance . . . it's the best.    

 

Raisin bread toast for breakfast.  Love, LOVE. 

 

We have had a few really beautiful, sunny, mild spring-like days.  Yesterday we even had the windows open to blow out the cobwebs. Took a drive to the cemetery to visit mom and take her some roses. It was just a nice, nice, nice day. 

 

 

Sunday roast beef. There is something really nice about having a pot roasted beef dinner on Sundays.  The smell of it cooking all afternoon, sitting down together as a family to enjoy it. My sister does a really nice pot roast. My father never liked roast beef but he loves my sister's. He says she cooks it like his mom did. 

 

 

March, will it go out like a lamb or a lion? It came in like a lion so  traditionally it should go out like a lamb, but we will see.  Loving the sight of crocus popping up their little purple heads. 

 

 

Its a special connection. I would not want to be without it. 

 

Sometimes I think that my life is quite quite boring by comparison to many other lives. It becomes more boring all the time. It is really quite ordinary, but I love the ordinary and I am grateful to be a person who is able to just this . . . find joy in the ordinary. 

 

 

My father's "bum" chin.  I have it, and so do four of my five children, and I see it in almost all of my grandchildren. Family traits that are passed on down through the generations.  They are a special thing.  

 

Its all in your perspective.  You can choose to be a half glass full kind of person or a person who sees the glass as always being half empty. I choose to see it as half full.  If you do this with regularity it just becomes a way of life, your way of life. Sure, there are some days I need to remind myself of this, but for the most part, I am living a life filled with gratitude. 

 

Its true. I am so thankful for each one of you. For sticking with me, for your support and love.  Through thick and through thin. You help to make my world a better place.  I appreciate it.  There are days when you lift me more than you will ever know.  You are valued and your coming back again and again brightens my days beyond measure. I truly look forward to our little visits. Thank you. 

And with that I will leave you with a thought for today.

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 *.˛.I never know how strong I was

until I had to forgive someone 

who wasn't sorry,

and to accept an apology,

I never received.

~Unknown     •。★★ 。* 。 

 

 

In The English Kitchen today . . .  7-Layer Dinner.  An old, old favourite from way back when. 

I hope you have a lovely day and that your week is filled to overflowing with many small and wonderful things.  Don't forget! 

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And I do too!