Ten Things I Love 8.12.08

1. My husband! Who needs a teddy bear when you have 6′ of snuggliness? When he is there I sleep like a baby; when he’s not I toss and turn!
2. Fresh cucumbers from the garden
3. Being able to giggle over my own stupidity
4. Reading a good book
5. Garlic.  (Alas, maybe you all won’t love me after the garlic, but yum!)
6. Wind.  Wind is Nature’s music!
7. Doing something well and looking at the finished product with pride
8. Jars of things I’ve canned, lined up like little soldiers!
9. Warm sheets straight out of the dryer.  (I’m sorry, but you just can’t line dry them because they get all stiff!)
10. Having a few minutes to just listen to silence.

Ten Things I Love 8.5.08

Today’s feel-good moment brought to you by: Oh My Gods!

 

Ten Things I Love…

 

1. My husband! He’s knows me so well that he left me a note yesterday to remind me to eat supper, knowing that I am likely to get distracted and forget…
2. Guilty Pleasure – Ice Cold Coca-Cola Classic.  It gives me heartburn and the twitches, but every once in while it’s worth it.
3. A tomato, a tomato, a tomato is red! And perfectly shaped and blemish free! It’s so satisfying that the very first tomato of the season is “perfect”
4. The fact that despite the sterile environment, there is a spider living in my shower and he’s survived for weeks!
5. That a book can make me laugh out loud much more readily than TV
6. That I still have enough literary responsibility to write “laugh out loud” instead of LOL
7. That one of my dearest friends actually thanked me for doing something that was an expression of my true self, something that I never expected thanks for because it’s “just what you do”…
8. The sight and sound of the treetops whirling hither & thither in the wind just before a storm
9. Worms, squishing & squirming through my garden.  Ok, so it’s not really very “girly” of me, but I LIKE bugs and snakes and worms and spiders!
10. Antici……………………………………………………pation!

Joyous Beltaine

Despite the snowflakes I saw yesterday afternoon, Beltaine is a time of emerging life and fertility.  The world around us is covered over in a veil of green and all around us new beginnings are taking root.  Most of us think of Beltaine as a time where the Divine touches the world waking the plants and quickening the womb.  Everywhere we look the trees are putting forth little green buds, the bravest flowers are poking through our sleepy gardens, the birds are courting and life is a buzz with prolific energy.

However, I believe we should recognize that there is more to it than that. This is also the season of new beginnings that are somewhat less tangible.  Blessed be those that are starting some great new adventure.  Sacred are the burgeoning ideas and fledgling plans.  Hallowed be the new relationships -unprecedented friendshipsand tentative romance.

Hence it is not merely the glory of new life that we celebrate today, but we can focus on the new and revel in change.  For what is growth, but change? Spring is a dramatic metamorphosis from Winter; and every first timer will tell you that becoming a parent is the most drastic, amazing transformation one can experience.

Hold your hands out in front of you.  Perhaps your thumbs are not green and there are no dirty diapers in your foreseeable future, but that does not mean that Beltaine is not for you. What you see in front of you are the vehicle of change - take a chance today and grab onto change and celebrate this season of New! 

Joyous Beltaine to you all…