The weather turned warmer overnight and today I took a walk outdoors for the first time in a week. I’m feeling such
Gratitude
for it feeling almost like a balmy day outside today, for clear blue skies overhead, for the pair of pileated woodpeckers I spotted on my walk today, and for feeling almost back to normal after feeling a bit under the weather for a few days.
Life is good — even in January in Minnesota during a pandemic.
I am look forward to a few more days of this warmer weather this week and hope to walk outside again tomorrow.
“Life is something we need to stop correcting. My boy was a pocket universe I could never hope to fathom. Every one of us is an experiment, and we don’t even know what the experiment is testing.”
― Bewilderment
I don’t have much to say today but thought I would share a few photos from my walk and of my amaryllis flower buds that are emerging so beautifully. For the past couple of days I’ve been reading Richard Powers, Bewilderment. His fiction is so filled with the truth and reality of the times we are living in, yet it is also expansive and lyrical. It has the kind of beauty in it that makes me want to laugh and cry, sometimes at the same time.
“There are four good things worth practicing. Being kind toward everything alive. Staying level and steady. Feeling happy for any creature anywhere that is happy. And remembering that any suffering is also yours.”
― Bewilderment
“That’s the ruling story on this planet. We live suspended between love and ego. Maybe it’s different in other galaxies. But I doubt it.”
― Bewilderment
Wishing you a beauty and gratitude filled rest of the week.
May you walk in beauty.
You have to look closely to see the pileated woodpecker in this photo. I was quite a distance away.
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