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Little Window On The World

A small window on the world

I was sitting here thinking of how to turn my thoughts into something so beautiful that it would speak to people and make them feel that pleasant warmth that comes from sheer thankfulness. The joy of home, family, friendships, little works and finding hidden treasures in plain sight.

It occurs to me, that I am led down one path of belief in the world to another, souly depending on the bend and curve of a speaker or a  writer's sight, I swell to hopes, dreams and see things in a new way. To nurture words into feelings is an act of caregiving.

As a writer, I read everything, and as a reader I am exposed to so many different ways of thinking. Far away places call and best of all, right where I am I can climb the highest mountains and catch the authors breath without suffering oxygen deprivation. I can search back and read it slowly, savoring the moment that first captured me. I can explore my feelings and deeply absorb a matter of greatness, by marking and putting down my book to get myself a cup of tea. I can bring new information slowly into focus by spending moments working or playing. Often I return to the same book with a fresh new perspective that settled into my being and became a truth, just waiting for the next idea to clarify it even more.

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Before cable brought so many ideas into my view and before I searched out things I wanted to know about, my eyes and ears pretty much dictated the rightness of the world to my little window. When the computer switched on carrying its twisting, turning ever churning media presentations and advertisements, I was switched back and forth, up and down...any opinion on anything was suddenly put forth from more angles quicker than I could process and determine what I felt, thought and believed.

Suddenly I found myself worrying about too many things that were totally ourt of context taken, along with heresays and gossips that honestly, did not enhance my life. I was taken to an intimacy with issues and daily events that were beyond my comprehension, and all out of sync with one another. Worries and fright, exasperations took over everything until I rarely had the luxury of looking deep for my opinions and my thoughts. Every conversation turned away from the everyday, away from my beliefs and far from my little window.

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My mother was a self educated person possessing a wealth of simple success and experience. She cautioned me above all else to think my own thoughts and nurture my existence within the realm of my kingdom. Time honored and time tested words brought out truths, real lasting ones. I am grateful for that. When the world of untried and untested theories and remedies bombards me from every view, I remember that.

When I am pushed and shoved, worried and chased this way and that by fears, I seek my little window and it's view. More often than not, it makes me happy. I am very grateful to be afforded the opportunity to write and be read. It is a great honor and privilege. What I have to say isn't as important really as how I say it and what it gathers.

From where I sit, the world is breathtaking, the journey from waking to sleep is amazing and filled with great wonders. The distance I can travel on two feet grants so many possibilities and opportunities to exercise my mind and soul as well as my body. A full breath of kindnesses and true beauties carries my spirit and I find I can't do enough good to stop there from being good to do.

Life has always presented needs and working hard is the way to fill them. That is truth. Challenge precedes ease and life has a way of working things out given a little time. Storms will be weathered and some hardship will land. Time teaches and heals, the space between people is just enough to allow a little reflection.

All this...from a cozy chair, by my window on the world.

Gratefully,

Mary

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