(This woman is meant to be jumping for joy – print and original available here.)
(Quotation by Richard Wagner)
I must tell you that being healthy again after being under the weather for a few days has really given me an opportunity to love the life I live. (OMG being feverish and ill as a mother is dreadful.) Mr. B was laughing as I told him about my trip to the grocery store one morning this week. I could not walk slowly enough to take in the marvel of it all – the colorful flowers, the fresh fruit, the magazines at checkout. Amazing the choices we have, isn’t it? And there were so many people to exchanges smiles and greetings with! I really believe 99.9% of people are good eggs. We’ve got out outshine that other 0.1% that are getting lots of attention lately.
This shift has carried over to everything. Getting dressed in the morning, I am so happy to not be wearing my pajamas and to be moving my body! I choose comfortable clothes. I reorganized my closet. (Yes, again. Sssh.) I enjoy doing laundry, loading dishes into the dishwasher, holding hands with my daughter as we go about our day, snuggling her to bed at night. I am just having so much fun being alive and healthy!
This post on Momastery says it all. And I am completely adopting Glennon’s word “perspectacles.” I, too, feel grateful for everything we have and get to do in this first-world life of air conditioning and Target stores and ice cream and friendships and books and medicine and enough of everything we need.
I just feel so JOYFUL all of a sudden! I want to smile and sing and hug people. Lol. I had a delightful shopping trip to get a pair of khakis yesterday. I was humming along to myself when picking out some things to try on and laughed about it with another lady when she starting singing my song. In the dressing room, I literally told myself out loud, albeit quietly, “No judging allowed” and someone a few dressing rooms down said, “Amen sister!” It was so fun! And then the check out lady and I had a lovely chat as if we were in a small town and we knew each other, all about school starting and her job and wishing for a break in the humidity and heat. It was so fun, I tell you, and I do not for the life of me know why I made shopping for food or clothes or even just brushing my teeth into such a dreadful burden before.
I think this attitude is how we are meant to feel about being human beings, living in our sensory bodies. We are meant to delight in the wonder of things. I am sure of it. I am keeping my pair of perspectacles and wearing them proudly!
While I was making my artwork yesterday, my daughter made a canvas too and she said she wanted me to share hers here also “so [she] can be famous too.” I had a good laugh at that one! She probably will be famous someday, but I am famous only in her eyes. 🙂
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