A good life happens when you stop and are grateful for the ordinary moments.
Brene Brown
I like having a theme for writing my blog, like this pilgrimage.
It gives me a place to start that is more specific than the amorphous “what’s going on in my inner world and how it intersects with my outer world,” which is really what my blog is about.
However, a longer running blog theme, like the pilgrimage, does have its downside.
There aren’t always Smashing Insights that appear on schedule, every week.
It’s different from when I used to write just when something appeared that I wanted to share.
This week was one of those weeks, with no Smashing Insights appearing in time to write the blog.
I have been “just walking” and doing my best to be present to the moments.
But then I realized that in doing that, my week was filled with extraordinary ordinary moments.
The ordinary can be quite extraordinary when we pay attention to it.
On Sunday, Harold and I took our dog Bella to a favorite park for a walk.
We had been there only 4 days prior, but about 5 minutes into the walk, I realized that the whole landscape had transformed in the interim.
Large expanses of the brightest green grass had turned to a deep yellow ochre, heralding an early Autumn, and the opening of new possibilities.
One change in the color of the grass, and everything looked different. As I looked more closely, I could see more subtle changes in the colors of the leaves on the trees. There were some yellows mixed in with the greens, and things were definitely in transition.
I realized then, again, that life isn’t in the Smashing Insights.
Life is right now.
Joy can be discovered in the embracing of the ordinary.
Pilgrims know this, and I want to remember it.
How can you embrace the ordinary?
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