Friday, March 1, 2013

This Moment and Five Minute Friday (Ordinary)

Write for 5 minutes flat – no editing, no over thinking, no backtracking.

Ordinary:
Oh I may feel it at times. Ordinary. Unoriginal. Boring. Dull. Repetitious. But I am and my life is anything but. I am extraordinary. My life is superlative. There may be ordinary things about it, who has or wants a life that is all fireworks 24/7 365 days a year? Even James Bond has to brush his teeth and shave. Take today for example, it could have been ordinary but instead it was full of adventure and excitement and dashes and wrong turns and getting lost and then found and coming home with our treasure. Along the way we saw trees in bloom and wildflowers. We counted trucks and wondered what was inside. Magical. Extraordinary. I take the laundry down from the line and feel the 70 degree heat on my face. 70 degrees! In MARCH! Extraordinary. I listen to the peeping of our new chicks and I'm thrilled. I read books with my son before nap and he is full of questions. Every day he changes, learns, shapes, explores. There are ordinary moments, but it is definitely an extraordinary life.


{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.

 

4 comments:

  1. Moments like this will last a lifetime! Wonderful!
    Here is my moment: http://myhighdeserthomestead.blogspot.com/2013/03/this-moment.html

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    1. Thank you! I write them down so I will remember them :)Otherwise I forget how lucky I really am.

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  2. HA! Even James Bond has to brush his teeth and shave. Yep. The beautiful is often found in the repetitive normal. We just have to look for it!

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    1. I couldn't agree - if we only viewed it as drudgery or something negative then it would be pretty draining. Not to say that as i hang my umpteenth line of laundry I'm not wishing to be someplace else doing something else. :)

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