Discovering Beauty in Everyday Life

You’re enthused. Pep Talk: Whatever you’re up to, I hope you feel enthusiastic about it. Enthusiasm is an excellent motivator. If you can feel pumped about the stuff on your agenda, it’ll be more fun to do. And you don’t need to feel shy about your gung ho attitude either because apathy is so 2012. Today remind yourself: I’m enthused. www.peptalks.co You’re enthused..... Daily Pep Talk From A Best Friend

Tra-la-la, Tra-la-lee, Tra-la-loo… I’ve got nothing important to do! No Races to run, No to-do’s to be done, Boohoo, boohoohoo, boohoohoo! It’s cold in the park, It’s cold every year, So why not accept it And move on from here? Ok! I’ll adjust, I’ll re-tool and comply. Everyone does it, So why not I? Tomorrow I’ll change! Or maybe today; The year’s only started, It will all be OK. Plaza Fountain at Lincon Center in January:   How Cold could it really Be?

We were drugged and dragging then, through a snow-topped mountain, grey and tawny black, thoughts racing, focused a long way back.  Punch, punch, through the crust-topped snow. No skiing today, not with this rocky sun-smeared frozen icy covered trail. Ice breath hanging in the dry air;  wind cutting down the canyons. It was the spring thaw that brought us to a new life, forlorn among the daisies. I could not control the sneaky destiny,  harpoon impaling in my chest; your  blood-soaked heart caught the other end, shaking and surviving, throwing back an anchor line.  We were too weak, too meek, too unforeseen, too resonant to disambiguate the situation.  And what to do with all that slack that only tightens when we walk away?  L etting go;  fingers soaked in  pain-stained history; There was the cornbread life, baked in a round pan, brown edged in the afternoon, pulling away from the iron rim on the wood baked stove.  At the cottage backyard doorway, there you are.  I don’t rem

There is an advantage of having Blue as the New Red and Green. It suits the chilled evening wanderers, as they go passing through an epiphany. East 58th Street, New York, 2013 (Taken with iPhone)

Tromp, tromp, shiver and shake It’s too cold to take a walk to the lake We will stay in bed with a book instead And post a shot from a previous lot. ********  Today’s Quiz: The woman in this picture is a) Throwing away an ice cream wrapper b) Petting a small animal c) Reprimanding a small child (out of frame on the right) d) Looking for a toy submarine without a periscope. e) Other   Women at North West Corner of Harlem Meer YES! The correct answer is ---                                                          e) Other  !!

I do love an early morning bus ride out of Moffat Colorado! Route 17 near Highway 285 in Southern Colorado. 

I feel opened up and unwrapped today; did that every happen to you? When that heady concoction of Life just begun comes into your heart and begins to outrun the Sadness and Madness, the Sorrowful Brew, that had captured my mind for an eon or two, before I recovered and finally knew, If I spent just a few of these moments with you, I could vanquish each dissonant thing that I'd done, when I hadn’t a clue what I wanted to do with the what and the why and the who. Let’s close up 2012 with a joyful adieu. lt’s a gorgeous New Year, and it’s waiting for You! South Park, Southern Colorado in December