This week's writing prompt. Maybe you are a morning person. Maybe you are a night person (that would be me) maybe you are a 1:30 p.m. person. Pick your favorite time of day sometime this week. Find a favorite outdoor spot and sit for half-an-hour and do nothing. Just enjoy a moment of stillness or splendor or a view. Write what comes to your mind.
Summer Nights
Sometimes I forget how happy I am. And then I take a moment to revel in the synergy of a Southern Utah summer night. It is amazing what happens to my soul when I watch the warm breeze tousle and dance with the gray branches of bushes back-dropped by mountains crowned in a distant lightning storm. Everyone should find thirty minutes to watch clouds unscroll themselves over the mountain tops; sit still and anticipate flashes of lightning. Patience is rediscovered in the slow steady lifting of a cloud front. Stillness is found listening to a solo cricket belt out its song above the cacophony of a cricket orchestra. Perspective is achieved watching nature when all is shadowed, only to be illuminated by stars and electric bolts miles and light years away. Finally, when my mind is still, I remember how blessed I am to be surrounded by beauty, how happy I am to have a yard teeming with life, how lucky I am to have big porch with a panoramic view.
2 comments:
Wow - you write with such beauty! Thank you for letting peak into your world - it will only fill mine with more beauty!
How do you still manage to think so deeply with three kids! ahhh anyway I finally got going on my blog, my address is rafteryfamily.blogspot.com, now I will complete the tag you sent me thanks!
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