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Magic is everywhere. I only need to be present to my life so I can see it when it appears, which is exactly what the Best Year Ever is about for me.
Riding in the car the other day (yes, riding, not driving) :-), I suddenly noticed a play of light. It lasted only a minute, but it was beautiful in its color and unexpectedness.
I feel like these are love letters from Spirit. This year, I want to open them.
Here is something I’m graced with every sunny afternoon in winter, because the sun shines through the west windows really strongly and clearly when the leaves are down. The light streams through some crystals that I have hanging in the windows. Instant rainbows.
Today, because I’m becoming addicted to all of the brilliant, “ordinary” miracles in my life, I stopped to really take it in and relish it. Best Year Ever.
Walking my dog. One of the most ordinary, and at the same time, extraordinary, things I do every day.
I’m enjoying my Best Year Ever, merely because I am choosing to pay attention to my life in more present way.
That’s not as easy as you might think, for me, anyway.
This is a scene that I have probably been gifted with thousands of times before, and I have never seen it.
Today, I noticed Cinn’s shadow, walking along, animated, exuberant! And I thought, Best Year Ever.
Catching the moments is what makes this the Best Year Ever.
I used to let them pass by, because my attention would be on something inside my head, that usually had little to do with the miracle dance that was occurring right in front of me in my “ordinary” life.
I’m learning to pay acute attention to what is right in front of me. Interesting that I need to learn something that we are born with. I guess that is the lesson of mindfulness.
Here’s a sky painting, courtesy of Nature herself. Pay careful attention, because it will change in the next few seconds.
I’m enjoying my Best Year Ever because I have decided to pay attention to my life with a level of attentiveness that has heretofore been elusive to me.
Today’s delight is a small patch of snow that I discovered nestled in a shady spot among some grasses, where all of the other snow had already melted. It caught me by surprise.
I loved it because, when I saw it, I imagined a very small, parched creature coming upon it and finding a tiny gift in the drought we had been having.
It made me realize that there are hidden worlds everywhere, that we never notice. And yet they are right there, all along, when we open our eyes to see.
The latest installment in my Best Year Ever comes from seeing something in a new light, literally.
When the sun comes to the point of due East in the fall, the light shines directly into my office, and through this mosaic that I made 10 years ago.
It’s been hanging there for those 10 years, and has, sadly, become part of the background of my life.
Not today, when it caught my attention in a new way. The turtle came alive and I noticed it. That’s really the celebration, that I noticed it. I know that we are given these gifts every day, and all I need to do is to pay attention more fully.
Snow was predicted as I took my walk the other day. The clouds were pregnant with it.
I stopped at this place on my walk, a spot that I pass by, and where I often pause, a few times a day.
But this day I was extra-alert to the moment. My senses were alive and felt almost electrified. This caused me to stop and breathe and take in all the beauty, because any moment now, it was going to change into another beauty.
I really aspire to live animated, fully alive to what is right here, all my senses and intuition fully engaged.
I’ve lived too many years in the landscape of my thoughts without being aware of the landscape of my life.
These leaves caught my attention as I was coming back up my driveway to the house this morning.
I walk by them everyday, but today I noticed their luminosity. It was as if there was a light within them, projecting out their inner beauty.
I thought about how each one of us has a light shining within us. This felt like an invitation to all of us to let our inner light shine.
I’m having my best year ever, paying better attention to the ordinary, remarkable things in my life.
I came upon these balloons on a walk, and they lifted my spirits. There was a strong breeze, and they were dancing in the wind.
An invitation to play, from life.
These are some crab apples that are hidden away in a brushy spot down by our road. When I really looked at them today, I was dazzled by their perfection: their shape and color delighted me.
We didn’t anything to help these grow. They are a complete gift of nature, of pure abundance.
Of course this got me thinking of how our lives are overflowing with the abundance of nature. I feel so filled up and blessed when I really take that in.
