What unacknowledged blessings and beauties are right before your eyes?

What is the good of our stars and trees, our sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

— E. M. Forster

It was only yesterday that I once again rejoiced over my working-from-home status. And yet today I’ve had a change of heart.  Let me explain…

Yesterday…

You see, yesterday I went for an early (very early) morning walk.  And while an endless straggle of “let’s get this over with” exercisers numbly plodded by, I was quietly mesmerized by the landscape, the burbling of a nearby fountain, the ringed ripples rolling ’cross the lake, the twisted beauty of the peeled Eucalyptus bark.  And I reveled in the simple luxury of being able to linger along the path instead of feeling hemmed in by the commuter schedule I used to endure.

All in all, my wandering walk was an uplifting beginning to a busy, working-from-home day, a lovely interlude I would have missed had I been among the commuter crowd.  Our blogging friend, Sarah of CowsFromMyWindow.com says it so intriguingly: Continue reading » Whenever and Wherever I Am…