Wonderful Wednesday #19
A weekly post to count the small joys and littler things I'm grateful for each week.
It’s important to note that these posts first began a long, long time ago on a blog that still exists, somewhere. At the time there were too many plates, and life felt overwhelming and a lot and, for some of that time i didn’t even really realise it.
But i did fast realise that writing helped. At first i think the act of just being creative outside the rest of what was ‘life’ at the time and, in a way that was never public before and at first felt like to almost nobody, really helped. And then once i realised that, then the regularity and routine and of showing up and being accountable (if only to myself) helped too. And then i found i began to share the small moments, minute details and so often quite little joys i was grateful for in my everyday that, had somehow also become sort-of-a-therapy to me that this post was eventually born and sharing it with you was too.
I rarely talked about my life in great detail and ironically the very most about the rest of the world around me in the most detail. It was what held most importance and what helped and well, sharing the inner most details of your own personal life to the whole wide world (or at least some of it) still feels quite daunting to me.
But what united me with those kind people that read, and read and found me here, there or wherever they or you did, is the human-ness and the great help that comes from connecting with other likeminded people and in simply having the feelings you are feeling at any given moment, felt by others too.
When you are struggling, or lost or feeling as if life is difficult in any sort of a way; there is no greater comfort and reassurance than knowing that you are never and will never be the only one feeling that way. It’s both perspective-giving and comforting all at once. And so sharing those things that brought me joy, i hoped and still hope, will inspire you to do that too in amongst whatever stage of your life you are living or how you are currently feeling.
Life lately has been a lot. But here are a few minute joys that have been helping each day become the next and help nudge Tuesday into Wednesday.
Light. There really has been no greater joy than waking up to such beautiful light for more days than i can remember not doing. Isn’t it so strange to think that only a month ago there was still frost on the ground and how quickly i have forgotten it?!
Burgers. A spur of the moment supper of organic beef burgers piled into our favourite crusty bread, a good helping of mustard and a stuffed with lettuce, sliced onion and a little tomato sauce. There is nothing better than really listening to what you are craving no matter what!
Sunny morning cycles sans coat. What a joy to behold! Sandals too. Sunglasses even. There are freckles on my cheeks and i am no longer rushing and actually lingering. Summer you may stay. Aslong as you hang around the twenty degrees celsius mark, ok?
Reading before bed. An evening ‘unraveller’ and just a really lovely routine i have gotten into to make sure i’m letting go of each day gently.
Al fresco coffee. In sunshine no less! What really is this alchemy?!
What little things and small joys have had you feeling the most grateful lately? I’d really love to know. As always thank you so much for being here. I haven’t been the greatest at getting back to emails or catching up with comments on here lately but sometimes a plate has to drop, doesn’t it? I’ll be up to date soon i hope. The audio to this weeks short and snappy substack will be landing a little later on but i promise to update you as soon as it does.
Sending you all so much love xxx
I'm still getting a handle on things I put forth at the beginning of Spring and they are winding now just in time for SUMMER. I'm looking forward to the hot months this year, not for the heat and humidity (which, here, is brutal) but for the nostalgia of freedom that it invokes. My goal this year is to channel as much as I can that little girl who looked forward to three months of No School, to swim and play and create as much art as her heart allowed! Not sure how much swimming I'll get in (hopefully some!) but the creating is slowly seeping into my daily life again and it's wonderful. A little like the sun waking up and finding all the buds just waiting for it! Happy Wednesday! Thank you as always for helping me slow down and remember that it's the little things that make Life so grand! XO
Taking in a moment to soak in the views of all the gorgeous cow parsley which seems to be having a bumper year. Letting the dog in the bed for a morning cuddle. Standing in the garden with a morning coffee letting the daylight soak into my eyeballs. Eating a slice of warm bread, fresh from the oven, slathered in butter.