Oh dear. It is 11:41 p.m. and I am just starting to write this evening. I do try on most days to actually post my blog before 10 p.m. and definitely before midnight. This might be a wee challenge tonight, but let’s see how it goes. Perhaps offering simple gratitudes are best for a late night, short time frame situation.
- I spent a rather quiet, low key day for the fist part of the day. I managed to do some much-needed cleaning: not my entire house, mind you, but some areas that needed a little extra attention. I confess to having to chase the blues a bit today, but then it has been an odd sort of week, what with the snow day tucked in the middle of the workweek. I’m grateful to have taken care of a few things around the house today and will perhaps take care of a few more things around the house tomorrow. Perhaps I’ll finally get my creche put away. (Surely by now Baby Jesus and family were in Egypt…)
- I am grateful for music–being able to play as well as listen to it. Having been a singer-songwriter for 40 years (yes, 40) has given me such pleasure and joy over the years. It is a gift that runs in the family: both my kids are musicians, one mostly plays for personal enjoyment and self expression (she plays acoustic guitar and writes songs) and the other plays guitar in a band, is a magician at writing, recording, and mixing songs on his computer as well as playing piano, bass, and pretty much any instrument he picks up. It’s been said that music transports us to a different place, a different dimension; one can get lost in the music. It’s really something when you are the one who is doing the transporting, you are the one creating the vehicle that carries your listeners to another place. There’s nothing quite like the connection I’ve been able to make with other human beings when I’m playing and singing. It’s amazing.
- I am grateful for clear starry nights like this one. As the winter warms into spring (it was close to 60 degrees today), I am looking forward to sitting out under the stars some evening. Sometimes the cold, clear nights are the most beautiful. There’s something about the stillness of a clear wintry night when the stars and moon are bright in the sky. This evening as I left my sister’s house (where I’d been providing youngster care) the stars were marvelous. One of these days I’m going to find myself out in the country somewhere where there are few lights to mar the beauty of the night sky. I can remember being in Australia a number of years ago. Where we were situated out in the country the area was deeply dark and the stars were that much more brilliant. Of course the constellations looked a bit different “down under” but they were no less spectacular and beautiful.
Well I missed midnight this evening, but I’ll go ahead and post this now anyway. Tonight we “spring forward” one hour–not my favorite time of year a I’m likely to be tireder and crankier for the next few weeks as my body adjusts to it. I’m grateful for the lengthening days and the coming of spring. So many things to be grateful for, so little time! Time to post and take my rest. Tomorrow is indeed another day full of possibilities.
