Today

Today I am thoughtful.

Many people have become very opinionated these last few weeks expressing thoughts that seem to turn into fights.

I am sad for so many friends I have seen not completely thinking through the opinions they are expressing.

Today I am happy.

I get to see my husband tonight and give him lots of kisses and long hugs after missing him for too many days while he was away on business.

I got to help a sister in need yesterday and hold her precious week old baby while she fed her other kids. 

I feel hopeful even though I've many pure enlightening thought on how wicked this world has become. 

Today I am me...

and I'm good with that. 

To Ponder

In this day when much of the world is wrong,
we MUST be able to discern what is right.

We MUST be willing to identify right
as easily as recognizing that
a rain cloud will burst,
waves will crash on the shore,
and flowers will reach for the sun.

Thought

Here's a thought to end on.

Goodnight Monday. Until tomorrows sun...

Music Monday

                                                              Bloom
                                                     by The Paper Kites

                   
                                                                          also listen here

Happy Music Monday everyone! 

What a beautiful blue sky Monday it is too! 

I drove to work today in silence. No music.

I know, can you believe it? 

For those of you who don't know, this is as odd as 90º in Antarctica.

However, I was pleasantly surprised to feel a smile creep across my face as I felt sunshine coming through my window and saw endless blue sky in the direction I was heading. 

It was a deep sigh kind of moment in all the right ways. I couldn't help but hear the soothing melody of The Paper Kites single "Bloom" in my head as I drove.

It is a blue sky and sunshine Music Monday. Breathe in some fresh air today and whistle your own melody.

Currently on Repeat

   

                                                          Skyfall-Adele

                            
                                                                               also listen here

|| deep sigh ||

|| repeat ||

My initial reaction when I very first heard this new theme song for the then upcoming James Bond, I was surprisingly let down. I thought, this isn't Adele...and where is the superhuman tie into Bond? Little did I know a deep emotional love for this song would seep through the cracks of my musical bones and saturate my nerve endings so that I just want to close my eyes and let the hairs on my arms get prickly as I hear the rich tones, like chocolate, evaporate from her ever telling lungs. 

|| deep sigh ||

And look at that picture...like I said, chocolate! 

When she won the Oscar this February for Best Original Song I was thrilled. 

Just listen a few times. I think you'll feel the brilliant oozing of musical charisma that I am talking about here. 

Breathe in and enjoy.

|| repeat ||     

    

Gratitude

In a time world that makes it so easy to forget what really matters in life, it is a simple understatement that gratitude for the simplest of treasures can be swept under the rug without a second thought.

Too often things happen to us that seem so significant in the moment but really are just a tiny pebble in our shoe on the long winding road of life.

I have cause to be grateful every moment of every day.

I am grateful I have eyes to see...and that those eyes see beautiful colors.

I am grateful to have ears that hear sounds of spring and brilliant melodies.

I am grateful to have a body that moves...lungs that breathe air, feet with all 10 toes, hands with all 10 fingers.

I am grateful for tastebuds...life is delicious!

I am grateful for a car that take me anywhere I need to be...grateful for the freedom that allows me to go anywhere I want to go.

I am grateful for light and the warmth that comes with it.

I am grateful for darkness and that I can lie in a warm bed and sleep through the night.

I am grateful for a husband who loves me enough to know how to put me in my place when I forget to be grateful.

What are you grateful for at this moment? 

Faith in Humainty

Had a patient tell me today that I have a very upbeat and positive personality...

and just like that, my faith in the kindness of humanity was restored.

Thank you dear lady for not being afraid to share kind thoughts with a stranger.

Movie Music Monday

   

                                           Main Title from Braveheart

                       
                                                                    also listen here

I can't help but well up with emotion every time I hear the music from this movie.
There are moments during movies when the whole of it's content 
is depicted by the music that is playing.
Braveheart has many such moments and the music itself tells a tale of 
courage, strength and heartache. 
Simply beautiful. 
Get's me every time.