Today

When I was in high school there was this saying going around, "Today is the first day of the rest of your life." My next door neighbor , friend graduated at the same time as me and gave me a plaque with those words on it. I was thinking about that for some reason today. People make New Years resolutions , start diets, promise themselves all kinds of things that they are going to accomplish within a year but one day is easier for me to grasp. Every day we have a choice, actually many choices about how we are going to eat and what kinds of things we are going to fill our minds with. Sometimes it seems harder to be positive about things and work towards goals that we have made.One of my friends has a wall hanging in her kitchen that says, "Yard by yard life is hard, inch by inch life's a cinch. Maybe that is part of the key to sucess, taking small steps. If you have a goal that is important to you what are some of the ways that helps you to accomplish it? I have many goals right now. I want to get in better shape physically and lose some weight too and I have this goal to simplify my home by getting rid of excess. I have so many clothes and books and decorations that I really have lost joy in. My husband and I have spent sometime getting rid of things. It is really quite freeing but there's a lot to do yet, Another goal is freshening up the house with some new paint and flooring, There's something about a newly painted room that I love. It looks so clean and new. Nature has a way of letting go in the autumn and becoming minimalist in the winter, In so doing there is room for all the fresh new flowers and gentle green leafs of the Spring which will shade us the hot summer days. It does get quite warm in southern Indiana. 70's in the Spring and 80 and 90 and sometimes beyond in the summer. Fall is so beautiful to me with the changing leafs , only trouble is I know what is coming. But that is life and seasons. It is all good in it's own way. In the meantime I am really enjoying the signs of Spring all around me. Have a lovely weekend !

Looking forward to seeing flowers like this again