It's been an undisciplined gratitude month. Oh, I've been grateful, every day, truly. But I've been lax about getting it down on paper. But the month has been full of those odd, funny, joyful moments...
The laughter of a child at a made-up nonsensical joke.
Getting the giggles so bad you forget what you were laughing about to begin with and laugh more because you are laughing until it hurts, and then you laugh more.
Meeting the eye of your love across the room and smiling because you both just Know.
Coming through the door and smelling dinner when you thought you'd be the one cooking.
And watching a big, clumsy old dog take off across someone's yard to attack a spinning pinwheel flower, and seeing him laugh and prance away like he did something AMAZING when it stops spinning.
Our lives are full of things to laugh about, if we pay attention. There are moments of joy, quiet and loud, dark and bright: They surround us at all times if we have the eyes to see and the ears to hear. The day-to-day struggles of our lives sometimes feel overwhelming. I need to remember to SEE, to HEAR, and to FEEL the joy when it is struggling to make itself heard!
DeeDee
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