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.  

I am so grateful for Zoom. It allows me to be able to attend meetings and seminars, even church, without leaving my home. I can attend meetings which are being held thousands of miles away in real time. My financial self-reliance course which I am taking on Monday evenings is done via Zoom. I am so grateful for modern technology which helps us to stay connected as it does!

 

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Sunday. I am grateful for this day of the week which gives me pause to rest and to reflect, a time to recharge my battery for the week ahead, a time to pause and really connect with my spirit.  This is important to me.  Without Sunday, all of the days of my week would just blend in together and there would be no hub to help bring my life back into balance.

 

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Sunday dinner with family.  It is so nice to be able to spend this time together on Sundays and connect together as a family.  My sister, father, Dan and myself. All of the cats.  Some good food.  Great company. Family time. It's all great!

 

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Light and shadow in life.  We need both to move through life with balance and grace. We hold inside each of us a dynamic interplay of light and shadow, a constant movement between our most elevated selves and those parts of us we keep hidden from the world. The act of embracing our humanity dictates that we learn to acknowledge and integrate both of these halves. We do that through love. Love for ourselves, love for others, and love for the journey.

This year I am on a journey to learn to love myself in a way I have never done in the past. So far so good.

 

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Joy. Joy is a pink house painted with flowers.  Not really but does this not make you smile. This would be a joy filled person in a crowd.  Strikingly beautifully different. It is impossible not to smile at and with them. Joy is invasive. It spreads its seeds with abandon. If you are lucky, you will catch some of them and plant them in your own life, into the fleshy tablet of your heart, and let them grow to the point where they burst open and spread with abandon in your own life and the lives of those around you. Just like a dandelion spreading its seeds in the wind. Joy. Joy. Joy.  Once scattered these are seeds that cannot help but grow in the most wonderful way. 

Speaking of Dandelions, how could I resist! A bane to some, a gift to others. It's all in the perception.

 

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I spoke of seeds of joy, now let me speak of seeds of kindness. Equally as pervasive.

Something each day - a word.

We cannot know its power;

It grows in fruitfulness

As grows the gentle shower.

What comfort it may bring,

Where all is dark and drear!

For a kind word every day

Makes pleasant all the year.

Something each day - a deed

Of kindness and of good,

To link in closer bonds

All human brotherhood.

Oh, thus the heavenly will

We all may do while here,

For a good deed every day

Makes blessed all the year.

Something Each Day, Author Unknown

Life is just better when you scatter seeds of kindness throughout your days.

 

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Having a proper focus on life. Again, it is a matter of perspective.  Little by little, day by day, things such as focusing on your abundance, finding and sharing joy, spreading seeds of kindness, finding a balance between the light and the dark, loving self and others . . . these are the building blocks of a successful and a happy life.  If you have these things, you have all that you need.

A thought to carry with you . . . 

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 *.Just be a good person.

Love who you can,

help where you can,

give what you can.

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In The English Kitchen today, Hawaiian Barbeque Chicken Nachos.  Super simple. Super delicious. Incredibly moreish.

I hope that you have a truly wonderful day filled with abundance.  Be happy and be blessed. Don't forget!

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And I do too!