Daily Delightful Discoveries

Very early one morning, I came upon a mass of coloured flags crowded into a small patch of moorland.  It was as if they'd grown and blossomed overnight.  But I'm guessing some kind of race was taking place later on... J



It’s a pretty lame name. One day I’ll bother to come up with something better. But Daily Delightful Discoveries is a practice I came up with at the beginning of this year.

Each day, I make a record of anything that causes me to break out in a smile or a giggle. It’s usually something small and frequently something fleeting. It’s just that, instead of letting the moment fly in and out of my dizzy brain, I notice it….and tuck it away for later.

I don’t actually go looking for DDDs. Just clock them whenever they occur and scribble them down when I get the chance. Recording events and impressions is powerful. The smallest things acquire significance. And keeping a record of my delightful discoveries helps deepen my appreciation of my amazing life and makes me feel rich.

Here are some recent ones. You might like to start cataloguing your own…

• A lime green car followed by a vivid yellow car ahead of me on the road


• A goose flying overhead, honking


• A friend standing in the sunlit doorway of her home, waiting to welcome her children back from school


• A pheasant basking in the sunshine


• A stream of vintage cars passing me on a usually deserted road


• An obliging toad who allowed me to photograph him for several minutes


• The Nippy Chippy (the name of a mobile fish ‘n’ chip van)


• A woodpecker on the fat ball I hang for the birds


• A very small boy at the supermarket singing Santa Claus is Coming to Town - word perfectly - at the top of his lungs. In May.


• Collecting a still-warm egg from one of my hens, moments after it had been laid


• Getting a row of seats all to myself on a plane


• A white horse with a pink saddle

Comments

[Tracy]

Sweet magic moments, Helen... A white horse with pink saddle--now there's a picture! :o) Happy Weekend ((HUGS))