How Sweet It Is

to receive your kind comments and congratulations on my 2500th blip yesterday. THANK YOU! I appreciated them all, especially because I've fallen mostly to silent on my end.

Today was a perfectly perfect day.  I treated myself to a long breezy walk at Frohring Meadows where the grasses, wildflowers, and shrubs in the meadow were mostly taller than me for a change.

I liked this when I read it, so I'm sharing...

     "Laugh whenever you can, with whomever you can, as often as you can.
And when darkness comes, and it will, don’t flinch. Don’t fill the silence. Just stay. Sit with the grief, the fear, the loneliness. Let them speak. Let them pass. That’s where your courage is: not in overcoming, but in staying long enough to be transformed.
     Aging doesn’t make you noble. But it gives you the chance to be real. And that, I think, is the highest thing we can offer.
     I don’t know how many days I have left. But I want to live them awake. Awake to pain. Awake to joy. Awake to this strange, beautiful, unfinished symphony of being human. It means you’re still here."

- - - Mike Tobin