Be Still a Minute...: Sunshine On My Shoulders

Monday, October 27, 2014

We've been having the most exceptionally fine weather here for the past few days. I thought I had worn my flip flops for the last time this year but I should have known October had one more surprise left for us. Growing up, and even into my thirties, I was always more of a spring person but I swear the older I get, the more and more I love and appreciate fall. Spring is still special but autumn speaks more deeply to my soul these days.

This morning (in the sunroom again) the warm sunlight fell on my face and shoulders and I got that hugs-from-heaven feeling once more. And then of course I started humming along with John Denver (who was singing in my head)...Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy...Sunshine almost always makes me high...

Then I had the idea to snap a few photos with my iPhone throughout the day of all the little magical happenstances I took notice of. But in so doing, I just kept being drawn back in to the welcoming warmth of that October sunshine and realized that in and of itself was more than enough. So I just soaked it up at every pause and turn and thought, Perfection. Plain and simple. Perfection.

Late October sunshine accompanied by gentle breezes, abounding trees entering into their most radiant forms and temperatures in the upper 70s, with low humidity. Weather simply doesn't get any better than this. It's like October is practically shouting for us all to pause in our daily pursuits and take notice of the miraculous transformation/show of brilliance that is happening right this fleeting instant.

So I did; I soaked it up...

And it made me happy.

Day 27

In Others' Words...

Everyone has their own experience. That's why we are here, to go through experience, to learn, to go down those paths and eventually you may have gone down so many paths and learned so much that you don't have to come back again. ~Prince

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again ~William Penn

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened. ~Anatole France

Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady. ~Edith Head

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. ~Erma Bombeck

Life is not the way it's supposed to be. It's the way it is. The way you deal with it is what makes the difference. ~Virginia Satir

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. ~Phyllis Diller

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. ~Robin Williams

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. ~Robert Frost

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

~Eleanor Roosevelt

Monday, October 27, 2014

Sunshine On My Shoulders

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