Sometimes it’s how the light is hitting the trees and buildings, sometimes it’s the warm weather, but today it was just that I was feeling great. I walked back to the little grocery store because I needed some ingredients for jambalya.
As I walked there and back I seemed to notice all the flowers – it’s not just the cherry blossoms that are going nuts right now. The colors seemed more vivid and with the slightly warmer weather it is really starting to look nice around here. Four boys were playing a pickup game of baseball in the yard behind the temple, right beneath the cherry trees. Two ladies stopped to talk to me as I walked along, remembering me from some chance encounter we had earlier.
Maybe it has something to do with living through a couple of months of cold temperatures and rain, but now everything seems to be coming to life. The simple act of walking down to the store and buying whatever I want for dinner, and even a candy bar or two for dessert really lifted my spirits.
I’m sipping a Guinness, I’ve got jambalaya cooking in the rice cooker, and I’m feeling pretty good about things right now.
