Piggy Tales 7/9/2014

Your mission today, should you choose to accept it...take 3 minutes out of your busy schedule to "pause, see, appreciate".

The past couple mornings as I have breakfasted with Rosie and Bean (after the bug-made-me-stab-myself-in-the-hand-morning), I decided I needed to "just breathe". Take a moment and really look around me. Not just glance but really SEE what's around me and apprec...iate it. Of course, my piggles were just happy to have company and kibble but their grunts of happiness made a nice backdrop with the birds singing their morning song. Wait...I was actually "hearing" the morning! A late whipporwill. And a woodpecker
off in the woods! And I heard Mom feeding her kitties on her porch.

Hearing was followed quickly by SEEING. So I slowly strolled around
Huppertz Holler. The Mimosa tree that came from Aunt Nita's house many years ago is in full bloom. The powderpuffs are beautiful. I want to paint them. And next to that is a Pin Oak. At least that's what Mom tells me it is. It was a stick when she stuck it in the ground in our yard 20 years ago and now it's so large that I can't get my arms around the trunk. How did that happen? When? And I can no longer see onto my brother and sis-in-law's back porch because the Cedars have grown so much. And how long has it been since the Canna Lillies tried to take over the corner of the yard near the septic drain line? LOL They were beautiful but boy, did they multiply! Then suddenly...POOF! they died out. As the glow of the sunrise turned to full sunshine over the treetops, I realized my time for reflection was coming to an end and I had to return to the daily grind. But I didn't feel so heavy now. I no longer dreaded going to work. I found my Happy Place. Find yours and Share a Smile today. It's free and it's contagious.