Contentment and happiness show up in realized minutes of being fully alive. I don’t think we really know something until we know that we know. When the next sweet moment comes into your life make sure to claim and savor it as pure gift. The more often such gifts are realized and received the more seem to come. To them that have more shall be given.

~Gunilla Norris

I can’t always believe how much my heart can hold…

inquiry for today~ what amazes your soul?

warmth between hearts….

It happens, you know—the day opens itself
like a tulip in a warm room, and you meet someone
who amazes you with their willingness
to be a thousand percent alive, someone
who makes you feel grateful to be you.

And it’s as if life has been keeping a beautiful
secret from you—like the fact that they make
elderberry flowers into wine. Like muscadine.
Like the yellow-green floral scent of quince.
Like the perfect knot for tying your shoes.

And it turns out life does have wonderful
secrets waiting for you. Even when the news
makes you cry. Even when some old pain returns,
that’s when you will meet this new friend.
Someone wholly themselves. Someone

who makes you smile in the kitchen, a smile so real
that when you go out, the whole world notices.
It’s enough to make you want to wake up in the morning.
To go into the day. To be unguarded as a tulip, petals
falling open. You never know who you might meet.

~Rosemary Trommer