I am Grateful for Evening Light

I am grateful for evening light.  No wonder this is the best time to take pictures.  There is something calming about the shadows getting long, ebbing their way across my street.  I love the bright orange glow reflecting off my neighbors’ houses as if they were capturing the sun in a copper bucket. 

Although this light is available daily (at least when it is not raining!), it doesn’t last long. A lot of life is like this: readily available, yet strangely elusive. 

It is during this time the wind eases and line definition becomes softer in the setting sun.  With the sharp contrast of noon gone, the world looks diffused, imperfections are muted and people even appear younger. Maybe this is why it is my favorite time of day!  Mostly, I appreciate how this evening light makes me feel.  I have found that as the mountains shine with amber, my soul fills with peace the same way fresh baked bread satiates and warms my belly. 

Now I’m hungry. :)

Not feeling it.

I'm tired.  Everyone at my house is tired.  It feels like we are constantly burning the candle at both ends.  I'm sick of crappy weather. I want to move to Maui. Great post for my gratitude journal, huh.  Well, I'm not feeling too grateful.  That's right.  I have a perfectly good life and I'm still frustrated, tired, and ungrateful.  I'll probably be struck by lightning. So take that world, my second post of my gratitude blog and I already struck out. So typical.

I am Grateful for Good Examples

 I am surrounded by good people and always have been. In every chapter of my life I have had people that I looked up to and wanted to be like.

My Gratitude Blog

After several weeks of feeling sorry for myself I decided that I would enter the world of blogging.  At first I thought it would be a public forum where I would be witty, make reference to my workouts, and chronicle my wonderful parenting moments.  It would be the place where I could show the world my perfect self, the me I wish I was, the me that has it all together.  Then I realized something: I don't have it all together.  Even if I was to piece together the various portions of my life to create something you would all be jealous of, I would be desperately short on material.  I lamented for several days that I didn't have anything that would make you all wish to be me.  I considered lying.  Then I realized what an ungrateful twit I was being...so instead I am making a gratitude blog.  My hope is that this will be a therapeutic outlet for me and a happy place for you to visit. :)