Top Ten Favorite Things of the Day

Top Ten Favorite Things of the Day

10. My blanket... I love my blanket.
9. Il cane mangia!
8. Sitting in traffic so I can stay on the phone with a good friend longer.
7. Warming up with the dog on my feet.
6. Finding the last pieces of 82% cocoa.
5. Finding out the coolest, new features on the cool, new software at work.
4. Learning new Italian phrases and planning to visit Capri.
3. Really fun meeting with colleagues.
2. The joy of conversations with old friends working things out and new friends planning new conquests.
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And the Number 1 best part of today...

1. Listening to my children chatter away with each other at midnight laughing so loudly they woke me up - again.

I love listing off my best things. It forces me to reflect kindly upon my day and sometimes that little bit of perspective is exactly what is needed to relax and unwind.

I love planning good things in the morning, too. Some morning I just sit there and think... ponder... wonder... I used to call it molting. When I would consider the thoughts in my head. I have been adding some stuff (studying Italian for example) to that ritual, but honestly, the pondering helps.

It is awesome to listen to the quiet in the house. My thoughts just sort of tumble, they don't race and I am listlessly winding through the maze of ideas and concepts that rattle around up there. It's fun, really. I should write some of the stuff I think about down - it's good. Well, at least it seems good at the time. Then again, it seemed good at the time to do a lot of things that weren't so good!

When you think about it all of what we do here is just a way of biding time. In some ways life is like a serenade we use to enjoy the ride. Oh-oh... I find myself in that peculiar place... let me share this with you...

When I was sick I couldn't seem to read novels. I would start them and put them down losing interest really easily. What was going on in my body was so huge that trivial novels seemed dumb. So I picked up Stephen Hawking's "The Theory of Everything". I took my bald head out to the yard and starting reading about his theory on black holes. It was fascinating. I rested the book on my chest and looked up at the sky and was overcome. I felt the expanse of life - all of it - at the same time. Too big. The point is that life is meant to happen to us in the short lists - not in the big expanse. God didn't make us EXACTLY like Him - simply in His image. So we can't handle the expanse. Why try? enjoy the short list - enjoy the best moments - don't sweat the little things and if you happen to tell someone something that you shouldn't have... consider why you think that is true.

I stand by my decision ... EVERYTHING has a purpose and it's all good.