Makin' a New Nest!

The toting up and down the stairs has ceased but there's a bevey of boxes to sort through before my new nest is feathered! Items missplaced...

1. the house telephone
2. the cords to set up my stereo system
3. 1/2 set of dishes
4. alarm clock
5. set of wooden cooking spoons
6. cord to the electric fryer
7. lid to the rice cooker

Amazingly enough, I'm ok with it all! I cleared paths, put the unknown boxes in a spare bedroom to decipher later and concentrated on my bedroom. My room overlooks the pools and tennis courts. If my lights are out, I can open my blinds and lay on my bed to look below. The pools have built in waterfalls so I can use my imagination to improve on the landscape to provide myself with the impression of an island getaway. Sometimes finding a tiny gift like that improves the quality of your life. I guess it all depends on how creative you can be or if you're able to embrace the very small jewels that comes into view. It has become so clear to me lately that I can no longer afford to revisit the sad lost times of my past...as that is wasting my precious present. What I do now is move in the moment and try to pull every shred of joy from any experience up to my face. I plan to study closely the things around me, looking for the beauty that has always been there. To observe the way I did as a child in the bayou country of Louisiana sitting barefoot in the dark dirt next to my daddy's workboots while he shoveled the family half acre garden. I miss the peace of knowing I'm safe. I miss the knowledge of understanding who truly loves you. I long for those days of trusting that giant of a man with my entire existence. I miss my cajun daddy!