The Portable Universe: Loving the world

“Anyone can slay a dragon he told me, but try waking up every morning and loving the world all over again…” Brian Andreas

Do you love your world? In all it’s imperfection and puzzles and frustrations? In your body that’s too fat or too thin or too old or too beat up? Do you take time to love your world? Some days it’s a lot easier than others. And I have to admit I lead an incredibly blessed and charmed life. At the moment I don’t have to work. I don’t have to grind through my days with boring meetings, or hard physical labor. Or deal with people I just don’t like. And in spite of this, I still find things to grouse about. But not too much.

I haven’t had the desire to write the past couple of weeks. Of course, during that time I had a bad bad stomach virus that laid me flat for over a week. It’s called losing five pounds the hard way. Thank goodness for my tribe, my gang, my people, my friends here in Silver. They tended to me with great loving care.

Then my former father in law dropped into town for a quick visit. He tells me I’m his favorite former daughter in law, but there’s not much competition. He’s a complicated man, but I think he adores me in spite of myself.

I’m loading up a bunch of photos that I’ve taken the past several weeks. Because they remind me to love my world over and over again. And my wish for you, my readers, is to be happily surprised every day with something that makes you love again.