Challenge
Count your blessings
There is a tendency to see only the negative in our lives, especially when there seems to be an overwhelming amount of reasons to be so this year. Take a moment to think about the good in your life, the things for which you are grateful. You may surprise yourself...I hope you surprise yourself. Prose or poetry - nonfiction, please.
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This much is true
Not ten feet away from me on my deck sits two flower pots of dianthus still blooming in late October. Three times over the summer these plants called out to me visibly ready to meet their maker and I knew what to do.
Cut them.
All the way down….
to within an inch or two of the soil, with my own hand, so close to where the roots give them life, removing the impending doom threatening their survival. And I sit and I watch the beauty of renewal in the background of my imaginations with my own eyes while I consider those around me offering me their love, near and far, and I know,
without a shred of uncertainty,
it's a wonderful life.