All posts by Barry

Heartland

❤️  Starting over – knowing we have that opportunity every day!

❤️  Tea, first thing.

❤️  Breakfast in Bed. Even though it’s a smoothie and not Eggs, bacon,  grilled tomatoes, mushrooms and toast!

❤️  Early morning Sun.

❤️  Gardens. The excitement of new blooms, growth, colour, harmony, balance.

❤️  Cats just wanting Love. Don’t we all!

❤️   Seeing order in chaos!

❤️  Accepting what is.

❤️  Outdoor grilling – one of the new pleasures of Summer!

❤️  Having enough.

 

Baby steps

1 Abscence making the Heart grow fonder

2 Lazy rainy days

3 This Life

4 The wild life around me  – no matter how much of my garden they eat!

5 Fixing a leak without calling a plumber!

6 Back in a good groove!

7 Baby steps

8  Health

9 My two amazing, lovely, happy daughters!

10 Knowing I did my best!

Differenciating

1  Purple punctuating green

2  Socks – did it get colder or is it me ?

3   Public Television – Heart Healthy programming !

4  Suppliments

5  Pants that fit !

6 The previous home owner – for a garden that continually blooms !

7  Electricians and plumbers and carpenters and  . . . . . . New friends !

8   Differenciating  between wants and needs !

9  Simple

10  My Body

 

Meanwhile back at the Ranch

1 Netflixations – “The Guardian” with Simon Baker !

2  Modern conveniences – not having to take my shirts to the stream this morning and beat then against rocks to clean !

3 Smiles

4 Colour

5 Duvets

6 Mondays feeling like Sundays !

7 Routines

8 Rituals

9 Rain washing pollinated cars !

10  Being Allergy free !

Flow

1  Battery power – rechargeable garden tools  !

2  Flow – relaxing into Life !

3  The Body – healing itself  !

4  Nature

5  Finding what you need

6  Wool gaberdine

7 Silk

8  Knowing

9  When to stop

10  When to say nothing

 

Flexibility

1  Flexibility – my schedule. Just need to work on the physical kind now!

2  Commonality – shared appreciations. We have more in common than we think. Thank you Garrett!

3  Peonies – filling my garden, my home and my neighbors home (for beautiful, fragrant, natural gifts)!

4  Bees and Butterflys – for all they do. Planning to help them in return :)

5  Skype – the opportunity to talk and laugh with my Friend in England for hours, for free!

6  For this iPad – making technology and posting so intuitive, so easy!

7  Free range eggs – so yellow, tasty and healthy! I know the chickens are happy and it shows!

8 Taking care of business – banking and medical screw ups today. Thankfully not mine!

9 Balance!

10 Opportunities/Options. Having more than we think we have!

 

Simple

1 Time to people watch

2 Wrinkle free clothing

3 The juxtaposition of Architecture

4 Dry cleaning

5 Vegetable Lasangne with no cook noodles!

6 A simple meal turning in to a party with new like-minded friends!

7 Witnessing the workings of a job that I applied for and didn’t get – thank you God!

8 Trees gracefully dancing in the wind

9 Blue Tooth devices  – safer driving, surround sound!

10 Watercolor masquerading as Sky!

Exploring

1 Adding plumbing to my resume – snaking 101 !

2 Seeing how the other half live, and appreciating mine ! –  Simple, uncomplicated, almost stress free!

3 Exploring new vegetarian recipes

4 Rhubarb

5 Wisdom kicking in

6 Horizontal Lightening – brief :) but spectacular!

7 Not making a big deal of it

8 Remembering it’s not all about me!

9 Much needed rain

10 Incredibly fragrant Peonies filling the air

11 Mally’s Chocolate !

 

Impervious

1  Good habits – posting being one !

2  Hydration

3  Clean

4  Giving without thinking or expecting !

5  Being half way there

6  Washers and dryers – laudromats being an inconvenient, distant memory !

7  Knowing where things are !

8  The unconditional Love of pets ( put your spouse and dog in the trunk of your car on a hot summers day, drive a hundred miles, open the trunk and see who’s pleased to see you :)

9  A quiet peaceful Holiday

10  Being impervious to sales!