Some days are made of nothing. They taste like nothing and they smell like nothing. Days like these aren’t meant to go down in the portals of your personal history. They are passing through days rich in teeny moments of nothingness we can choose to embrace or abhor.
Today I have done nothing of any significance. Nothing I will remember ever after. I will not say, aah now that was the day I planted more broad beans. The day the heart shaped maya gold cake was crispy around the edges. I surely won’t remember the hour on the sofa, drowsy in the afternoon sun. Finleys constant chatter. The basket in the kitchen I lined with oilcloth and filled with this and that. For sure I won’t recall opening the front door to pour water on my primulas, nor chatting about who knows what with the lovely woman behind the post office counter. Will I say I watched the woman next doors face light up when her new boyfriend arrived? That I shouted at my Mum (Sorry Mum!) or lectured Finley about biting his nails? Perhaps I will remember dipping all the eggs in the fridge in food colouring and staining the worktop at the same time. Or maybe I will remember tripping over the hole in the lino in the kitchen and simultaneously teaching my son to swear at the same time? Who knows…
Because perhaps tonight will be the night I read a poem that tells me what I need to know. Perhaps this Tuesday in April will be fragranced in my mind by
Maybe today was wonderful.
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That was beautiful! You are such a talented writer!
I think that you will now remember this simple day, because you took the moment to record the small pleasures.
I think that you will now remember this simple day, because you took the moment to record the small pleasures.
These are the sweet days that can and do make up our life, maybe nothing extraordinary but beautiful in their simplicity.
When you get a moment again, revisit or read for the first time, OUR TOWN by Thornton Wilder…. Beautiful, beautiful… It's a play, and we are all the Emilies…. and our little homes are Grovers Corners…. and we simply must realize every day while we are living it…. LIfe is too beautiful to imagine…. It's a dear one.
ok, I've gotta ask, why do you dip your eggs in food colouring? Is it to do with easter?
ok, I've gotta ask, why do you dip your eggs in food colouring? Is it to do with easter?
I think this is among the most beautiful things you've ever written… thank you for reminding us of the simple pleasures in life!
That was lovely to read.
Reminds me to celebrate
life, each day!
That was lovely to read.
Reminds me to celebrate
life, each day!
Wow! I just stumbled onto your blog. Thank you for taking the time to write down the sweet nothings of your day!