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latearrival
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0 posted 2012-05-21 03:11 PM


Just thoughts 2012

I don’t feel that seeing the simple things in life is a particular blessing of one of a certain age. I have been blessed with that insight all of my life. Even as a child. I remember so many beautiful moments that easily block out the many hard deals handed out by just living.

I easily become gleeful over the showing of a scene of nature.A violet standing proud and tall among the weediest looking blades of grass on an unkempt lawn, Peeking out as if to show all is not as it seems. A spider’s web on a clear morning glistening within the morning’s dew; A small Sunflower bravely heaving itself up between the curb and the gutter on a dirty neglected street. These small gifts are cherished and held in my memory even to this day. An unfamiliar dog following me on a morning’s walk and so friendly that I spoke inviting words and almost heard an answer.

These gifts and~~ many more

Some years ago while walking in the woods I came upon a bright sunny space with an old time stonewall built many years ago. I sat and looked around pondering about who might have built that wall; I sat until the tears flowed at the lost memories held within that area. I left and never returned; enough to carry the memories of a pleasant day and leave my thoughts and tears to blend in with the thoughts of whomever lived and built the wall.

The day I wandered down to the waterside and watched a young boy having a wonderful afternoon looking for crabs.  To listen to an eight or nine year old boy explain how to know if the crab was too young to keep or if it was a female carrying young ones and watch him throw it back into the water, as  “it was the law” he said. To be taught by a youngster any thing like that is always a joy.

To see again within my mind’s eye our young son come back from the small mountain in our area tenderly holding a frog with a smile on his face as he held it out and shared his afternoon hunt with me.

I can go on~~ A walk, a quiet place, the woods, the water’s edge, the camping trips we took, so many bring precious memories that I recall so easily. As life goes on I still rejoice at an unexpected flower blooming in the yard the occasional surprise visits from an Indigo Bunting or the painted butterfly, that only grace our yard once in a while.

It is the simple things that truly make a life. If we can forget the hurts, the neglect once felt and lived through and remember the slices of life that really mattered we can still smile.

jo

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Margherita
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1 posted 2012-05-21 06:09 PM


Yes, dear Martyjo, we can still smile. I greatly enjoyed your poetic thoughts here. You see things with your heart, dear Lady, and you share them beautifully. We call them small things and yet even the tiniest flower is a masterpiece of creation and our relationship with nature and all kinds of living beings is always of great significance when we are fully present to the moment.

Wonderfully inspiring.

Margherita

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2 posted 2012-05-21 06:36 PM


After a rather noisy afternoon, I can't begin to tell you how much I needed to be centered by the reminder of the simple things...

I am comfortable in this solitude that you describe...and I'll argue with you in a whisper:

"you are a poet, martyjo"


Startime1955
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3 posted 2012-05-21 11:12 PM


You took me away in visions that I find healing to the soul...beautiful writing...*HUGS*

*may our dreams ever be magical*

latearrival
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4 posted 2012-05-22 02:26 PM


Thank you Margherita, you who are love personified, and my friend Karen, I am blessed to hear you  were able to
reflect a moment because of my writing.

Startime, Thank you for stopping by and adding those nice words.  

And no, I am not a poet, but this is the type of thing I have been writing in my personal journals over many many years.

Looking back on them gives me joy because I discover I like the person who wrote them down. I think writing journals gives one the opportunity to live in the past and the now while rereading them. I guess we can say through the journals, we have been here in the now and the then. (((hugs)))  to you three, jo

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5 posted 2012-05-22 05:00 PM


Enjoyed your memories, Jo!  I sometimes visit the archives here to read my moments again.  It's amazing though how many I've forgotten which I guess is a good thing because it means that I did swim down the river of life - still swimming but now I'm weary.

Helen

latearrival
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6 posted 2012-05-22 07:21 PM


Yes, Honey. reading what we wrote in the past is sometimes an eye opener and sometimes refreshing. Thank you for your words of understandig. jo
HippinTrippy
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7 posted 2012-05-23 01:58 PM


Beautiful. Learning to appreciate everything, especially the little things in life will truly make for a much more pleasant and peaceful existance.

Thank you very much for sharing!

It's not easy being evil, in a world gone to hell.

Marchmadness
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8 posted 2012-05-24 11:21 PM


Enjoyed your pondering, Jo. Love your gentle spirit.
                             Ida

latearrival
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9 posted 2012-05-25 12:22 PM


Thank you Hippy for popping in and for your nice words.

Ida, thanks to you also. I always did like and enjoy the little things that bring smiles. jo

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10 posted 2012-06-04 02:15 PM


Such small gifts make a mighty impact... if we just remember to let them. *S* This is a beautiful write from a beautiful heart!
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