Share others beauty

Sharing what others love and see as beautiful in the world is one of my favorite things to do! Here's a picture that my brother took that I loved and wanted to share today. :)



Happy Thursday!

Pause to smell the flowers!

I often blog about "opening your eyes" to the world around you because I feel like it's something that is so important to notice the little things that are easily overlooked. And it's funny because sometimes I find that I am still not taking the time to do this (and I consciously try to!) I guess it's harder to do when you're in a hurry or rushing between places but enough with excuses! Today I walked to my meeting instead of driving (which I desperately wanted to do out of laziness) and guess what? I smelled the flowers. Literally my entire walk to my meeting I could smell flowers! It was incredible. And I saw the sunset (a recent obsession of mine.) And I felt the spring air. It was a beautiful few moments and I realized, during that walk, that it really is the times like this that you create your own bliss. Each day is a gift. We live in a beautiful world - all you have to do is see it.

What's your source of bliss today?

I don't have a picture to share so instead I am going to include an awesome song instead.



:)

A thousand words

They say (whoever "they" are) that "a picture's worth a thousand words."

So today, I decided to fill my blog with a thousand words.
:)


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Oh hello there, sunshine

As you know, today was "daylight savings time," meaning we all have to set our clocks ahead and lose an hour of sleep. Who wants to do that?! I can honestly say that I bet there is not a single person out there who prefers to lose an hour of sleep on a Saturday night - however, this isn't something that we can really change! Today I decided to find a unique way to celebrate this transitional day that happens once a year by venturing to the beach to watch the sunrise with my Mom. What I discovered was something more beautiful than words or pictures can describe - but I am going to attempt to recreate it here.

As I watched the sun rise at the bright and early hour of 7 a.m., I was taking in the beauty, fresh air, and change of environment that I needed (seeing as I have spent the last several days in front of my laptop or buried in a book.) I was relishing in the early morning beauty of the world when I noticed that it looked like something more spectacular than just a sunrise - it was almost as if the sunshine was hugging the world. The colors of the sun's rays were spreading across the sky, slowly enveloping the entire sky with radiant reds, yellows, and blues. The phenomenal effect of the color spreading from one side of the skyline to the other reminded me of outstretched arms delicately fitting everyone and everything on our planet into a giant hug. It was the coolest moment that I've had in a while.


Needless to say, I got my day off to a great start, in spite of the lack of sleep I have experienced the last few days. And I learned something valuable today: no matter what type of day it is, rainy, cloudy, stormy, or humid, the sunshine is always there, giving the world a giant hug to start each morning off in a loving and beautiful way. I'd like to think back on that image each and every morning when I wake up from now on. I'm pretty certain it will be a good reminder of the wonderful and positive things that we have to look forward to.

I hope you enjoy celebrating daylight savings time, and have a happy Sunday :)

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Beautiful in many ways

I was looking through pictures from Europe since I've been missing it a lot lately (it's hard to believe where I was one year ago! It's crazy how time flies.) And I realized that because I enjoy the beach so much, that I have a lot of pictures of the water and the surrounding landscape. But what I thought the most interesting part about it was that all of my photos are of the Mediterranean Sea, in different cities, yet they all look so different from one another! Each place has it's own unique characteristics, it's own type of sand, it's own surrounding cities - that it is almost hard to believe that all of the pictures are the same sea. I thought it was interesting because it truly demostrates that life's beautiful things are multi-dimensional. There is no black and white definition for what is beautiful in the things and places we are surrounded by, and each of them are beautiful in many ways, but connected by the same water. Pretty awesome.











Thanks for reading!
Have a great weekend.
:)

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