Aaaaaaaahhh…. It was 71 degrees F today for a few minutes, and the sun shone for a short while. It’s already down to 66 again, and it’s only 2:30pm, but I will be sure to appreciate what I had for a moment.

I went out on the side yard looking for violets. The violets are weeds, but we make sure not to put any weed killer on the lawn, as they give me more pleasure than the grass they co-exist with (you will notice that the grass is not yet green, but the violets are). I found two flowers in bloom and one bud ready to pop. We also have two daffodils that are showing yellow in their buds.

Someone wrote me today that they found my (very old but still valid) poetry and quotations website, and the quotation by Martha Graham was helpful to them. The note made me go back and read a little more of the quotations again. I rediscovered a quote from Maya Angelou, a woman I’ve heard speak twice and who has really influenced me. I was delighted that she talks about life being art. So I offer you this today:

“Because of the routines we follow, we often forget that life is an ongoing adventure. We leave our homes for work, acting and even believing that we will reach our destinations with no unusual event startling us out of our set expectations. The truth is we know nothing, not where our cars will fail or when our buses will stall, whether our places of employment will be there when we arrive, or whether, in fact, we ourselves will arrive whole and alive at the end of our journeys. Life is pure adventure and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art: to bring all our energies to each encounter, to remain flexible enough to notice and admit when we expected to happen did not happen. We need to remember that we are created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.
— Maya Angelou
Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now

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