Things that made me HAPPY this week.

1.  Working on photos for my niece for her special day

2.  Preparing and eating some super healthy, delicious meals

3.  Getting my hair and nails done.  I love my spa friends

4.  See Jack getting well. I love my dogs

5.  Talking with my kids for hours on the phone

 

6.  Photographing an ornery cow.  MOO!

7.  Reading.  I like getting lost in books.

8.  COFFEE!  I enjoying sharing coffee with friends.

9.  Super gorgeous jeans that fit and feel AWESOME

10  Endorphins.  There’s something addictive about working out.  I love endorphins!!!

Poppies

A goldenrod colored sign

on the side of the road

warns me to yield

to oncoming traffic

I yield to the other cars

noticing that the stripe

on the road is that same

unpleasant color of yellow. 

The poppies on the median strip

are goldenrod yellow, too

beautiful goldenrod yellow

glorious poppies

smooth delicate petals

move slightly in the breeze

while cars whiz passed.

I yield for the poppies.

Time. Fleeting Time

I heard so many times how some wished they had an extra hour or two in a day.  Well, during ‘fall back’ they got it.  Yep, a 25 hour day. . .  that extra hour to do with whatever you wished.   So what did I see???   An extra hour of rest?  No.  Most got up with their body clocks or their dog’s or kid’s body clocks.  An extra hour to accomplish a project or some plan that needed some extra time?  No.  Most didn’t give a second of that extra 3,600 seconds they got to any project or plan, the ones that needed that extra time if only it were granted.   You got it, and you wasted it.  

Well, it was.  A majority of us got an extra hour on Sunday to make all those special things happen.  That extra rest we needed, that project that just needed a bit more time if we could just squeeze it out.  

And what did we do???  Nothing.  We got extra time.  We got that one anomaly in this year that gives us the extra time we pray for each day and we did nothing with it.

Time is the most precious commodity we have.   Money comes and goes.  Friendships come and go.  Time only goes

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So, today you have the allotted 24 hours.  How are you going to spend it???  God knows, we most likely wasted a majority of the time we’ve already had.  How is this allotment going to be different?  What are you going to do today to make your life, our lives better?

Wheat Fields

Life is a sweet vapor that lingers

like the early morning mist on the

Kansas wheat fields in late August

alive for mere moments

   reflecting light from the first

      rays of sunlight

   creating new colors muted and bright

      nourishing the robust wheat berries

   floating gracefully atop the

      rolling fields of golden spires

and then in the next moment

   it is gone

I Don't Idle Well

I don’t idle well

As my body is forced to stop

my brain becomes a tornado of thoughts

wiping out my village of a peaceful moment

edging on my body to run into the safety of

busyness that I curse while wishing for peace

I don’t idle well

Am I waiting for everything

or maybe it is nothing

or a fraction of something

that fraction, that piece of something that becomes

a strange appendage making life lopsided

and peaceful busyness harder to grasp?

The storm in my mind carries me through

horrors of everything and nothing and

the damned lopsided possible appendages

I don’t idle well