This was a post first published in my private blog almost exactly three years ago today. I don’t recall what exactly prompted me to pen these thoughts at the time, but reading them now, I see they have a timeless quality to them, and it is therefore with a quiet smugness on a cold wintry night that I publish it yet again. May it be that we take never fail to take pleasure in the simplest of things always!
Thursday, January 29, 2009
So, I’ve just been thinking about the big and the small things in our lives that have the power to lift us high…
There’s the big things, of course, that raise your spirits and give you the top-of-the-mountain feeling. Things like aceing that test, or getting that job you wanted, or being told you are going to have a baby, and then having it, of course.
And then there are the smallest of things that move you and lift you so high, you wonder what gives… things like a compliment you receive for an ordinary banana-chocolatechip-walnut cake you might have made, or something small you might have said that made someone feel good, that days later they call you to tell you that it meant something to them.
So, here’s to the small and simple today. Excelsior, thy name is simplicity!
Nice! Excelsior! Truly things that are simple are the sweetest.
Glad you share my sentiment!