I got up at 4:30 this morning - couldn’t sleep any longer, so I did some laundry and loaded the dishwasher.
So, by the time the boys were eating breakfast, I had a chance to sit on the front porch and watch the sun rise….I’m not really a “morning person”, but I do love the sky so…
Today is such a quiet day. Peaceful, somehow. I don’t know why, but it just feels calm…
I’m so tempted to think it’s just the calm before the storm - and maybe it is - but I think, instead, I’ll just enjoy it while it lasts. Why borrow trouble?
I think over the last couple of years, I’ve grown accustomed to turmoil and crisis…so I tend to view peace and quiet with a certain amount of suspicion - waiting for the other shoe to drop…
But, I’m going to fight against that today - I’m gonna just absorb the peace and enjoy the quiet…
the chaos will come again soon enough.
Peace.
so i’ve been cleaning my house all day - mainly concentrating on laundry, my bedroom and my bathroom. sad that it takes me all day, but i’ve been sick all week and…well, there we are.
i haven’t felt well every day this week - except for thursday - but, every night around 6 or 7 i start running a fever, and it’s downhill from there.
so, assuming that the same may happen tonight, i’ve been racing the clock all day - i’m determined that i will go to bed tonight with my surroundings being peaceful and clean - and smelling like pledge and meyer’s organic lavender cleansers…
now the clock is ticking.
i’m not taking my temp. until i’m finished.
so that’s my mission today - so that i sleep well (which for me is anything longer than three hours) and can tackle my real mission tomorrow.
the sun is going down, and the rain is falling - and there are more surfaces to make smell like lavender!
so i’m signing off.
peace.
…I’m not sure what it is about me - maybe because I was born in the summer - but water always calms me. I’m always drawn to the ocean.
This morning, walking on the beach, I was thinking about why it’s so peaceful to me - even though there are lots of people around.
I think it’s because no matter how noisy or busy the beach gets, the ocean is bigger and louder than the noise - it makes all the craziness seem so small and insignificant. It is powerful enough to drown it all out.
The sound of the ocean, the waves crashing, the kids laughing and playing…it drowns out all of the “noise” of life.
It centers me.
When I get back to the real world, I need to remember the rhythm of the sea - so I can just close my eyes, hear it in my soul, and let it drown out the noise…
…it’s like the whispers of God.
“It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peace.
All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. -William Shakespeare
I played poker for the first time last night - not for money, of course.
I won the first real hand, but it was downhill from there…
Some highlights:
- Byron bluffed the whole table and won a ton of chips with a 4 and a 5.
- I got excited and raised the ante without ever looking at my cards.
- I stayed in and tried to win with a pair of 8’s - acting like I had a full house…it didn’t work (I lost everything).
- Kayleigh won the night…barely.
- Barry really doesn’t like to lose (but he makes great chicken Parmesan and garlic knots).
- Playing poker with Byron is just like monopoly…he always seems to win even if he’s dealt a terrible hand.
All my Christmas trees are down, and most of the decorations have been packed away…
We leave for the ocean tomorrow - I can already hear the waves.
2007 is winding down. I can’t say that I’m sorry to see it go…
There will be more peace in 2008, I’m confident - there has to be.
Back to packing up Christmas boxes…it looks too sad to have them just sitting around.
Peace.
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