“A simple life is not seeing how little we can get by with – that’s poverty—but it’s how efficiently we can put first things first. When you’re clear about your purpose and your priorities, you can painlessly discard whatever does not support these, whether it’s clutter in your cabinets or commitments on your calendar.”
~ Victoria Moran
I love this teeny-tiny red sun, peeking out from behind the clouds this morning. It doesn’t have to be grand to be spectacular. As yesterday I wrote about letting go, it seemed that this thought echoed loudly throughout my day.
“Everything changes, nothing remains without change.”
~ Buddha
The sky today was such a perfect example of Buddha’s quote. The weatherman say it’s supposed to be mostly sunny, although you wouldn’t have guessed it upon first greeting the morning skies. Good news for Adult Parade down at Carnival 🙂 In each blink of the eye and flash of my camera, the clouds had changed.
Yesterday, I was talking with a friend about relationships. Isn’t it within our relationships with people that we can experience some of the biggest highs and lows in life. She and I concur the suffering we sometimes experience in our relationships is a result of our not recognizing that the relationship has evolved. Not deeply recognizing and honoring where the other person is in THIS moment of time. Not in our moment of time, or our mutual historical time together. People change!
“When you’re smiling….keep on smiling; The whole world smiles with you. And when you’re laughing….keep on laughing, the sun comes shining through.”
~ Louis Armstrong
I sat for quite a while, basking in the beautiful warm glow of this morning’s sun rise. I didn’t get a very good night’s sleep last night … The wind’s switched around, which for whatever reason, brings mosquitoes, and they were bugging me galore. I’ll admit, I woke up groggy and crabby…
“No one looks back on their life and remembers the nights they got plenty of sleep.”
~ Unknown
It’s carnival time here in the VI, and I’m glad our weather is being highly cooperative!
Last night would have been J’ouvert (pronounced Joo-Vay), which is an all night battle of the bands and party in the streets. I had to chuckle to myself… As after my own late night party with friends on Tuesday night, I was asleep last night around 8PM, which meant I was wide awake without my alarm well before today’s gorgeous sunrise.
An anthropologist proposed a game to the kids in an African tribe.
He put a basket full of fruit near a tree and told the kids that who ever got there first won the sweet fruits.
When he told them to run they all took each others hands and ran together, then sat together enjoying their treats.
When he asked them why they had run like that as one could have had all the fruits for himself they said:
”UBUNTU, how can one of us be happy if all the other ones are sad?”
‘UBUNTU’ in the Xhosa culture means: “I am because we are”
“True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island… To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.”
~ Baltasar Gracian
Good morning friends! I was up late last night, with a friend who came over for dinner, drinks and a night of sharing friendship. As we poured one last round, which undoubtedly should have stayed in the bottle, she asked if we had anything that we needed to get up early for?
“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more.”
~ George Gordon, Lord Byron
What a splendid and still morning it is! So much life today amidst the stillness, as a beautiful hummingbird flew by me while I sat, stopping to look me in the eye, before zooming off. The sea gulls are back, and a pack of three soared above, exercising their voice in unison. Even my cats were up early, hunting for whatever they can scrounge up.
