Beauty at home
Good morning - it is a beautiful morning here in Oklahoma - the temperature is around 65, the sky is clear, there is no wind. I took a walk through my neighborhood this morning before the sun came for the day. The ground was damp and the car windows were blurred with consensation. I love my neighborhood. Like many of the things we love, darkness softened with a wee bit of light changes what we see, what we focus on.
First thing I noticed was the stars - bright, clear and crisp. The homes, some completely dark - some with a few lights on inside, looked comfortable, safe and inviting. A couple of neighbors have flag poles with the Stars and Stripes relaxing against the metal (no wind) - I'm sure they will be flapping soon; this is Oklahoma. The little spots of light, required by protocol for night-time flag flying or relaxing, give the fabric a soft yellow cast as though the flags were aged.
It smelled like fall, a little woodsy, with a whiff of summer flowers occasionally. The air was cool. Three or four lawns had been dutifully watered over night - the scent of freshly watered grass again recalled Summer, not yet ready to hand over the reins to Autumn.
The only sounds were a few barking dogs (they were only doing their jobs!), my cat meowing (Where are you going?), a few cars passing on their way to...job, school, adventure, life..., and the sound from my MP3 player (background music, only). It occurred to me, as I was walking in my lovely, familiar neighborhood to remind myself and others (ever the teacher) to look again at those things in your live, the lovely, the familiar, and find the things you may never have noticed.
A phrase for the day from John Mayer - "I am invincible, I am invincible, I am invincible as long as I'm alive!"
First thing I noticed was the stars - bright, clear and crisp. The homes, some completely dark - some with a few lights on inside, looked comfortable, safe and inviting. A couple of neighbors have flag poles with the Stars and Stripes relaxing against the metal (no wind) - I'm sure they will be flapping soon; this is Oklahoma. The little spots of light, required by protocol for night-time flag flying or relaxing, give the fabric a soft yellow cast as though the flags were aged.
It smelled like fall, a little woodsy, with a whiff of summer flowers occasionally. The air was cool. Three or four lawns had been dutifully watered over night - the scent of freshly watered grass again recalled Summer, not yet ready to hand over the reins to Autumn.
The only sounds were a few barking dogs (they were only doing their jobs!), my cat meowing (Where are you going?), a few cars passing on their way to...job, school, adventure, life..., and the sound from my MP3 player (background music, only). It occurred to me, as I was walking in my lovely, familiar neighborhood to remind myself and others (ever the teacher) to look again at those things in your live, the lovely, the familiar, and find the things you may never have noticed.
A phrase for the day from John Mayer - "I am invincible, I am invincible, I am invincible as long as I'm alive!"
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