It's a Wonderful Life.

It is Saturday, a lovely sunny day. I can do anything I want in the next 24 hours. What a gift that is! So, what do I choose? As I laid in bed this morning doing my meditation, I kept asking myself this question. This is what I came up with:
I choose to be joyous today, as it is a choice and one we don't exercise enough. I choose to read my book one more time before sending it off to the wonderful poet, Erin Davis, to edit :-).
Then I think a large, healthy, yummy breakfast is in order. Since I have run the last 6 days straight, I choose to be lazy today and not run, sometimes you have to be lazy :-).
I am not sure what comes next, but I think I will probably work on the two paintings I started this week, I may even finish one, or I have new clay to play with and I am itching to get my hands into it. I also have family and friends to call and a zillion books to read!
Everyday, we are blessed with another 24 hours, is a day to celebrate. We can't know when our time is up and life is so short. Choose joy and love today, choose to be happy.
Have a wonderful Saturday, and let me know what delicious things you chose today. XOXO

Beauty

After yesterday's post I needed to balance things out.

When I hear stories like Vestine's it always challenges

my world view. I thought of nothing else after reading

about her. After much thought I came back around full

circle and said yes, I still believe that most people are

good and kind. Yes, I believe that there is much beauty

and love to be found. I still believe in magic :-). I cannot

let the horror in the world be all I see. I also thought

a lot about the men who did those awful things to Vestine.

What horrors and insanity brought them to be as they are?

I myself have not lived a perfect charmed life. I have seen

my own horrors and those in my family have seen worse than

me and none of us can compare what we went through with what

Vestine has lived. My point is, is that many of us have had trauma

in our lives, but somehow we keep going, we keep smiling.

It must be grace. Grace keeps us alive. Beauty, love, kindness.

Peace and love be with you today and all days.

Photo by Geraint Smith