Today I celebrate.

Good day everyone!  It’s a beautiful sunny day here in the Lowcountry.   Perhaps it will be a bit a little less hot and humid here today.  But, it’s August so anything can happen.

Mid-August.     A time of celebration in some ways.  Why?    Even in the middle of the pandemic it’s important to continue to think of the positives of life and to look at each day as a new and beautiful gift.

So, today I celebrate…

Hope.  Yes, hope.   I continue to be hopeful that we will see better days ahead.

Friends.  I have had some sweet connections lately with some and I am reminded that even though we are living apart, we are still there for each other.

Differences.   The world would be pretty boring if we didn’t have different likes and dislikes, different hobbies and ambitions.   Yes, even different politics.   It’s easy to get upset at differences, but it’s more important to rise above them.   I’m a work in progress on that.

Health.   We know ‘when you have your health, you have everything.’   I do.

Music.  I certainly miss the live events, but I am thankful for Alexa bringing me music at the asking.  I also love watching my old videos from concerts I went to, so I can go back in time and re-experience them.    I’m celebrating all kinds of music too.  Yes, my ‘go to’ is feel-good country music, but I also love church music, and classical, and popular, and bluegrass.  I celebrate the talent of the amazing musicians.

Reading.  I’d be a whole lot more bored during this pandemic without a book to fall into, and to escape in, and to learn from.

Faith.   I know I have strong moments, and then some weaker moments too, but that’s how faith is.   In general I still truly believe.   I sure don’t understand everything when it comes to God, but that’s okay.  Again, I’m a work in progress.   Sometimes I think God keeps me around to give me more time to experience Him as He works on earth.

Action.   I celebrate action too.  Because with true faith there must be action.  Response.  Giving back.

Family.   I know mine is not perfect, and I know I am to blame with some dysfunction, but I love my family.  All of them.    The core group is such a joy – and fun, and just overall a huge blessing in my life.   And, I celebrate that it is increasing…   and that right there is known as a ‘tease.’

Nature.   This slower pace of life has let me view and listen to all kinds of nature around me.  I sit here now listening to roosters crowing, and I look upon the placid river slowing moving by.  I see the birds and squirrels at the feeder.  I Get to watch my flowers grow and bloom.

I woke up this morning in the mood to celebrate – thus this post.   I admit that not every day starts this way.   Perhaps if I printed this out and put it on my nightstand it would remind me and that would be a good thing.

Today is a new day, and it’s time to celebrate!