What do you choose?

It eludes us

because we think it's something we can seek.

That if we look behind the right door it will be there waiting.

I can tell you from experience, it's not true.

I think happiness is very connected to acceptance.

The acceptance of right now, this moment.

Not what we had, or what we think we will get.

But simple moments, the ones we look back on as the big moments.

The ones that really count.

And so many things contribute to our happiness,

but they are also the things we take for granted, everyday.

I want to make sure I appreciate them while I still have them,

and not after they have been lost.

I don't believe happiness includes the words, if, only or when.

I do believe this;

I believe that in the morning, before I put my feet on the ground,

although I don't always choose well,

I can simply choose happiness.

  

"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, won or consumed.

Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute

with love, grace, and gratitude."

- Denis Waitley

I chose this photo because one morning I had gone on my front porch in search of

spider webs and although I didn't find any, I did spy this . . . I think it's a bull thistle seed,

and it had landed on the bush and had collected the most beautiful dew drops,

and when I looked through my lens it just made me happy! I didn't even have to use my spray
bottle for this one, but I did have to move it though in order to get close enough for a photo, which reminds
me I need to add a pair of long tweezers to my bag of arsenal. It was a bit tricky to pick this up
without disrupting the drops.

Aren't you glad I didn't share the lizard that fought, and caught a spider?
Ooooh wait, I am, I will . . . you're not off the hook, and I have some other
really interesting nature things I found and witnessed that I can't wait to share! 

Wishing you all a very happy start to the week.

Mine started with Texas Pecan coffee and french vanilla creamer . . . sigh!

Love, Kim

XO