Today is sunny and mild and a perfect spring day — the perfect time to reflect on three beautiful things from the past week:
1. After a grey and dreary day, rain clouds pass through, leaving the sky washed clear with pink cotton candy clouds decorating the horizon.
2. One of my favorite tv series of the Aughts comes to Netflix streaming. Having missed the first season when it originally aired, I greedily watch the first five episodes of Charlie and Don trying to build a working relationship.
3. A card arrives in the mail with Easter wishes. The entire inside is filled with notes and colors, spilling over onto the back. Real mail makes my mailbox (and me) happy, but particularly when it’s so ebullient in its expression.
[Incidentally, we have just passed the six-year anniversary of publishing three beautiful things each Thursday. Thanks to Clare, who inspired such a lovely way to spend a part of each week.]
How about your week? What was beautiful in it?
1 – a beautiful huge rainbow yesterday evening which we wouldn’t have seen if not for having to divert through streets we weren’t familiar with
2 – my husband going to 2 of my favorite places in 2 days to bring me home gf cupcakes, for no particular reason
3 – getting close to the end of the 8 qts of strawberries we bought last week and knowing that the weekend and weekday farmers’ markets have started so we have plenty of chances for more lovely summer produce
Comment by MJ 05.05.11 @ 7:17 pmI used my voice recorder while reading to Marshall the other day. The recorder captured not only my voice, but also the sounds of Marshall roaring like a lion, laughing, making monkey noises, and shouting, “Puppy!”
Comment by Karen 05.05.11 @ 9:45 pm@Karen: That’s awesome! Make sure you save it so you can embarrass him when he’s a teenager. Or make yourself cry when he’s a grown man.
@MJ: Lovely!
Comment by soe 05.12.11 @ 3:58 pm