I did not want my Journal to be so top heavy with recent woes, but did help to write about them even if only to express myself to the great cyber-void. It has helped me move on to daily activities and a few small joys which I'll share here to balance some of the woe-ness I've imparted today.
Good thing #1: Cleaning vegetables brings me a sense of peace, particularly in fall and winter. It is best done when all else is still and quiet, but in the winter I sometimes enjoy listening to A Prairie Home Companion at the same time. This is pretty sappy, but it generates a 'warm home' feeling that is a nice complement to New England winters. Some people create their own, but the rest of us import.
Good thing #2: Despite my recent woes, I did not resort to the comfort of tortilla chips.
Good thing #3: Yoga, even just my weekly class, has helped everything.
Good thing #4: My birdfeeder is up and the house sparrows and squirrls have returned. I am eagerly awaiting my other visitors, the cardinals, chicadees, woodpeckers, and most of all, the wild monk parrots from the Connecticut coastline. They arrived last year at the very end of October, so I'm counting the days now. The wild birds at my feeder and nearby tree always give me a lift, every day.
There. That's four good things for today.
2 comments:
Are those pictures from THIS year? I'm curious because I thought I saw SNOW on the ground! Or (seeing that this gal doesn't know her birds) are those from last year? Either way, that's a spectacular sight indeed! Nice to see an entry counting the positives. :)
The photos were from February 2003, some of them after the President's Day Blizzard...thankfully, no snow in sight yet for a while yet! The parrots should return by the end of October. I counted 70 on the tree in photo #6 when enlarged.
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