B-E-A-UTIFUL Day

Photo of flowers I received. Love, love, love them.

It wasn't the day I expected after a week spent reckoning my past and figuring my future. This happens to me every year because it is my birthday and always causes me lots of reflections on the good and the bad in my life.


But it has been a lovely day.


It started with a quiet morning, visits from dear, dear people, and a GORGEOUS bunch of flowers. Sometimes beauty just knocks me flat and that is what these flowers have done for me today. They made the whole world around me vibrate with their shimmering beauty.


I've been to the symphony, found a great new restaurant that answers one of the deep desires of my heart (the ability to order multiple items for a small price so I get a taste of everything), and I've even had a long, heartfelt talk.


Then between phone calls, text messages, emails, cards and gifts I've been filled up with your love. Thank you. I feel simply lovely and completely loved.


It has been a B-E-A-UTIFUL day.

Random Act of Beauty

My sisters, Meg and Cassie, after snowboarding

I know I've come down off my vacation high from the cabin because I've been fighting a bad mood each morning and I've been smarting all week about it. I was feeling particularly snarky and grumpy this morning--moaning about my hard-knock life, my woes and wounds, and wishing I was far, far away from the messy, ordinary, dailiness of my life.

Then I came across my sister's entry from yesterday. She took some sweet pictures of a bouquet of flowers she received and then shared those photos on her blog. And suddenly I was reminded of one of the small pleasures in life, one of the bits of beauty, one of the reasons I do like to wake up in the morning.

And just like that, the dailiness of this day shined a little brighter.