Can you see it - just there in the light illuminating that fern frond? That beauty, the poetry of the everyday as I call it, brought a catch to my throat and tears to my eyes. It can be a fleeting moment in nature, it can be my daughter telling me for the 5th time today that I am 'the best cooker' (she knows I love cooking and love cooking for my family). Or just a kind word or a memory of being loved and cherished. The thriving stoic little leaves of an apple mint plant I smuggled from an ornate garden and am nurturing in a silver pot in my garden. All of these things the touchstones of my life. It's the observing and the recording that make you value them and use them to shore yourself up for the hard days.
Sometimes if you look, you see.
Maybe for a season, this summer season I will record and hold close the poetry of my life.
Oh yes I love those little moments and the unexpected beauty in tiny things. I love your phrase the poetry of your life. Beautiful x
ReplyDeleteTiny things, little signs of grace; and I don't necessarily mean 'amazing grace' grace from a deity, unless you believe in one, but grace from life, and beauty.
ReplyDeleteI just love this post..lovely!
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