Today's moodling is a simple encouragement to appreciate beauty where we find it in order to leave space in our lives to appreciate beauty. If we're having to dust, sort, organize and redecorate to keep our beautiful things and our lives in order, we're missing a lot of less tangible beautiful things, those experiences that we could be having if we weren't dusting, sorting, organizing or redecorating.
So whether it's a gorgeous vase in a shop on Whyte Avenue, or a pot of beautiful but fussy flowers (I've never managed to keep cyclamen looking like they did when I brought them home from the store), if we're living simply, it's usually better to appreciate beauty where we find it rather than bringing it home to clutter up our living space.
Today I'm appreciating the tulips on the south side of my house!
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EXACTly the idea I have been trying to wrap my head around for so long! Thank you for articulating it and helping my understand myself a little better.
ReplyDeletePS You live in a beautiful part of the world. I have toured around Alberta and BC a bit and fell in love. Of course I have had an enormous crush on Burton Cummings forever, so I will have to make it up to Manitoba someday too...see if I can find him.
I love the sunflowers in the strip of wasteground on Whyte Ave, opposite Earth'S General Store. Whenever I go past there I smile and think how pretty they look, an wonder who took the time to plant them.
ReplyDeleteI remember hearing about Guerilla gardeners last summer, but not a peep this summer. I wonder if Michael K. from Earth's General planted the sunflowers... he's the kind of guy who would, for sure!
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