Hey! How was your weekend? I blinked and I guess it’s Monday now, so I must have had a weekend, though it was apparently kind of a blur. 🙂
I’ll share one highlight that was a fun little surprise.
So, Asher currently has swim practice in a tiny little town about 20 minutes from where we live. He has had practices there for several years now at least once a week. Usually, I take the highway out, exit onto another country highway, turn down a single lane residential road and end up at the school parking lot. Then I backtrack that same route to go home. I’ve never actually really seen any “real” part of this little town, since our route in sort of bypasses it all.
Well, I decided that instead of just sitting in my car waiting for him on Saturday as I usually do, I would go for a little walk. I headed in the opposite direction from the school, down a road I’ve never been on. Turns out, it’s a quite quaint little town…sort of felt like stepping back in time in a way. Very quiet, with tree lined streets, little houses and a corner bar. 🙂
Anyway, just 10 minutes up the road I found this:
Gratitude is everywhere
I found a plaque stating that a settler first built a log and stick dam across this river back in 1845 and then proceeded to build the town around it. Interesting!
It was a very peaceful walk. No one was at the river except one fisherman, so I enjoyed some solitude and the sound of the rushing water. It was certainly better than just sitting in the van!
I repeated it the next morning on a sunny day:
The best part?? On my walk down the street, within 1/2 block of each other I found these two great examples of GRATITUDE! It really is everywhere, if you look for it! 😉 Without my daily gratitude practice and focus, I probably would have just walked right by and not even noticed these. But instead, I paused and they made me smile. 😊
Enjoy your week! Don’t forget to get of your van (or car, you know what I mean…) and see what you can find in our big, wide world.
Daily Gratitude:
I am grateful for a guy named Mike on the hot tub service phone line who was so helpful answering some questions I had about the chemical regimen for our new hot tub. He was so kind and patient with my many questions.
Love when we get out to do something unexpected on the spot, it's like a mini adventure for our mind, and often time we find a nice surprise. fully agree on the perspective of finding gratitude/joy if we have our eyes opened to them.
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Gratitude is everywhere and there are lots of things in our daily life that we take for granted! Like having a car – that's a luxury in many parts of the world! That looked like a beautiful walk. Good idea to get out an explore!
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