One of my mantras lately is to linger in the moment, whether I’m enjoying going out for breakfast before work, reading my book during lunch or anything else that I’m particularly enjoying. This is distinguished from savoring the moment. According to Wiktionary, savor means “to appreciate, enjoy,…
The February Joy Dare earlier this week was to find gifts in three things outside. Easy peasy, I thought. And it was. I found more than three gifts, which made up for the day I couldn’t find three gifts when bent over(!). The brilliance of the full…
Today’s January Joy Dare is to find joy in three blue things. As with the three yellow mercies, I had to think that over a while. Blue sky – that one was easy! It’s easier to be cheerful when the sky is blue. When I’m cheerful,…
I got off work early enough on Saturday to take a walk at the Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens. Not too surprisingly, the gardens were fairly empty. The temperatures have dropped considerably and the wind had a bite to it. I hadn’t intended to wear my winter…
Over the years, I’ve evolved some formats to use around January 1 to celebrate my life and accomplishments, as well as set expectations for the New Year. Here is the format I’m currently using: List 25 Accomplishments from 2011 Choose my top five accomplishments from 2011 List…
Wow, I cannot believe New Year’s Eve is here already. So, how did I do with my blog? Here’s an interview with myself: Why did you start the random word challenge? One of my personal goals this year was to write, write, write, Seriously, that’s how…
The author, Kate Chopin, once wrote: I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree…
I didn’t start 2011 with the goal of taking a photo every day. It wasn’t until February that I started to do it, although when I checked my inventory of the year at that time, I’d taken a picture of something nearly every day anyhow.…
