On Fridays she graciously hosts a link-up where you can share your “Pockets of Joy” for that week. I groove this. I warmly welcome the intervalled practice of expressing gratitude and joy for the beauty in a person’s life. We have so much! And sometimes intending to just maintain an “attitude of gratitude” can be rather thin and quiet, at least for me. Sometimes it’s nice to share those feelings of bounty.
3. Feeding the chickens. I love delivering kitchen leftovers outside to the chickens and watching them jump and scurry for the best stuff. I love the way their little talons sound on the gravel paths, the way they skeedaddle and sprint this way and that in feathery bursts of energy. I have said it before and will say it again: Letting the chickens go free range in the mornings is the best animal decision we have ever made on this farm. This week the chickens are enjoying the cooler temps and have been especially joyful.
5. Blogland. Meeting people through blogging whom I would never have met otherwise, like Keda from South Africa. Hello there! Staying warm? Check out her blog too. Thorough, sensitive writing, beautiful lifestyle. Truly.
7. Music. I rediscovered a Carla Bruni album and listened to it three and a half times while plowing through my overflowing ironing basket. Something about her effervescent sound and her poetry got me thinking about bubbles, circles, fractals, and mandalas, so I detoured from ironing long enough to get these words out of my head.