Monday, May 11, 2009

find + joy update

It’s been less than a week since I made my may find + joy resolutions…

And I must say – once you put a goal out there for all of the blogosphere to see

It’s as if there’s no turning back now…

And actually it’s been good, really good –

Although the alarm did get a couple love-taps on the snooze button this morning…

I’ve been journaling nightly – it’s been wonderful and reminded me how much I’ve missed the days where I used to sit up in bed, alone, writing about my single days…

But somehow along the way journaling evolved into pillow-talk and now I think I write less because I talk more to my main man.

It’s healthy, I’m sure, but I still miss it, and hope that this month helps bring the old routine back again.

I’ve also been {trying} to wake up earlier to give me time to slow down in the mornings, eat breakfast, read for a few minutes…it’s been easy because it was the weekend but this morning came fast and I found myself rolling over and hitting the snooze, not once, but three times.

But even still, I took it slow and did sit in the kitchen, and ate a bowl of life cereal and enjoyed the smell of fresh flowers on the counter.

This weekend also found me weeding through some books. I am not one to give away books. I can give away most things quite easily, but I hoard books like some hoard money.

So when I sat on the floor of my office, looking for a particular book, it started me on a book purge that took the better part of Saturday morning.

Three target bags later, my bookshelves did not look nearly as cluttered and books were back where they belonged. A shelf of writing, a shelf of poetry, a shelf from my English-literature studying school days…a shelf or two of spiritual books and even a whole shelf dedicated to books I have yet to read.

Confession: I have a problem with books.

It’s been documented before that when I was in Africa, Kate sent me a whole host of novels, of which I shipped almost all back with me upon my return. Well, yesterday, I decided to pass along many of the novels that have been read long ago. They were just collecting dust and I knew that my mom and others would find hours of enjoyment from those bags of books.

So, off I went, to Mother’s Day brunch with a bouquet of flowers in one hand and two bags of books in another…

I think secretly she wished that she could hold off on brunch with her family to sort through all the good reads that had just bestowed on her…

But she didn’t and she set them aside until a moment with more time…

But I think she liked it –

A woman after my own heart…

Or is it the other way around…?

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