I love my Saturday mornings @ home. To wake and while I love my job (as a job) I love being home more and connecting with myspace.com, not myworkspace.com. Work is a wonderful part of life, I am thnkful that I can work and that my job is involved with peoples lives etc, BUT there is no escaping, its fun and wonderful doing your own work. Trust me, I don’t have protestant work ethicitis where unless I am working I am not happy or have no meaning. I can sit still and listen to the noises in my mind, I make myself stop and think and just be. I have seen too many people who can’t and who are actually afraid to do so. Isn’t it great that right now I have the fridge ready to pull out and clean behind, the vacumn ready to go make love to the floors and I want to sit down and write. This is just the preamble, what I really wanted to write was about the beauty and pleasure in simple things.
Here’s my list of simple things today that have touched me with their beauty…….
- Waking to a letter from Susan who is 7000 miles away and 4 hours ahead in time yesterday
- Hanging washing on the line, and while pegging it up seeing the blue sky and feeling the sun dance on my hands
- The feeling of grass under my bare feet
- A coffee in the sun watching the cars go by
- The sound of the dishwasher and washing machine beginning their cycle
- Watering my plants, a Saturday morning ritual
- The sunlight on the wall as I wake, slats of light coming thru the blinds
- The daisies in the lawn sunbathing, being tickled by the wind
- A quick read of the local rag
- The yellow edges of the green agave leaves transparent in the eastern sun
Yes its these simple things that make me realise how rich I am. That I am free in a good land. That being down under does not mean down and out, that greatness can be found in simplicity and the strangest of places.
I know I have seen movies over the years of people who have simple lives and one might say a simple mind.
There is wisdom in simplicity, and great beauty.
I want to be like that.
Today is a start.
