Coziness – A good day

I am blessed today to:

• have heat in frigid weather;


• a casserole made yesterday that tasted even better today; 


• a few books I’m interested in reading;


• interesting work from my first individual client (yippee!);


• electricity that is working, which means that the internet connection and television and music are working (so I am fully entertained);


• a phone with caller ID helping to screen for  the unidentified (which usually means a telemarketer) – or talkative (a friend who I’ll call back when I need a break from peace and productivity);


• secured free tickets to a movie taping (thank goodness I read those small paragraphs in the paper – sometimes you find out about good and free stuff);


• a positive call from my daughter (love those);


• a lovely conversation with my husband on work and politics.

This has been an overall good day with no drama!  I am cozy, toasty, and happy to be right here.

It’s great to have peace. A good part of my life was not peaceful – whether from the roaring of the Leos that my mother and stepfather were while I was growing up or the stings of my Scorpio first husband.  Once I grew up from childhood and got out of a bad first marriage, this Gemini has always nurtured peace and quiet.  I am quiet habitually because I am an avid reader.  I am quiet by choice because I can catch up to myself then – ideas form and are massaged in my brain until I’m ready to write them down in stories or cook them up for dinner or rearrange them in my rooms.  As much as I have had to talk in my public work – I most often use words economically in my personal space.

It’s great to be fully present where I am and not wishing to be someplace else or imagining that someplace else is better.  How much time did I waste doing that?

Each hour, each day, each year of our lives is a gift.  I wonder what gifts 2008 will bring?  I’m looking forward to great and good things, positive surprises, achievement of goals, etc.  I am trying to embrace a lesson I learned during my recent visit to my granddaughter – to smile with my whole being.  I am working to have faith that the things that need to work out in my life right now will be worked out.

Peace.