Simple Things

Here’s the deal, it took me a long time to figure out that it is the simple things that make a life worth living - the little treasures that are just there for the examining.  Daily walks to see and smell the changing seasons - to just think and clear your head.  A good book that transports you to another place and time peopled with characters that you embrace and dislike - a book you can’t bear to put down and when you do, you cannot wait to get back to.  A kid in the family that just cracks you up with some unintentionally hysterical observation - and more often than not completely correct in its perception.  Tulips in the spring, brilliant red sugar maple leaves in the fall, snow swirling past old-fashioned street lamps on a dark Christmas Eve - a snow storm that you could not resist walking through.  Bake days with a variety of nieces, nephews and grandkids in my extended pieced-together family. Taking a photograph that is unexpectedly beautiful. These are some of my treasures.