sweet surprises...


are everywhere...

from the phone calls and e-mails we receive each day, to the joy of taking a walk in the garden with a friend and finding "treasures," sweet surprises abound! It is not even 9am as I type this, and already today I have seen the sunrise, my daughter's lovely smile, and our puppy's joy. A hummingbird whizzed by while I was finishing up in my garden and a boy hugged my girl as I dropped her off at school. He seemed sweet, probably the "funny guy" at her lunch table. I decided to grab my breakfast and lunch before coming into work, and sit out front, enjoy my salt bagel with jalapeƱo and read before starting my work day. This was the view:

Exactly where I am supposed to be

"...watching you be yourself, makes me want to be more of myself." A quote that Oprah read on her show, from a woman named Carrie. While it well may be the only way in which I am like Oprah Winfrey, but I do also know: Everyday, I know I am EXACTLY where I am supposed to be... I just show up, and, as Rascal Flatts sang for her on Monday's show:



What sparks the light in you??



a second post for this very full Sunday...

Mattie Stepanek on Oprah:  "poet, peacemaker and philosopher, who dared play, after every storm."
Prophet who believe purple is the color of hope.