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One of the things that makes that makes me happy every single morning is the light that comes through the windows in the kitchen onto our table.
It makes me feel calm and happy.
It make me want to sit still. Or read. Or just watch how it shines through the leaves of the plants I bought to help me get through the brown-ness of January and February.
the sharpness of winter morning light
the warmth of keeping everything close on cold evenings
I am a cynic. There is no way around it.
I'm also a worry-er. It's in my DNA.
But it is balanced out by parts of me that are ridiculously hopeful. Optimistic.
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I only have one quote that I look at regularly. I found it in a magazine when I was travelling for work. I was in a hotel room in Birmingham, AL. I wrote it on a scrap of paper that I've had taped to my computer for a year. I left it that way because it meant so much and I somehow didn't want to mess with it.
I want with my heart to believe these words. I'm not sure I'm there yet...but I have hope. Because THIS is how I want to live. Believing this:
"The texture of our universe is one where there is no question at all
but that good and laughter and justice will prevail."
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
