My goodness it has been awhile. It’s not that I don’t have anything to say. Every day a gazillion blog posts whiz their way through my mind. Some make it to my “list of things I want to write about”, but many just disperse into thin air..none make their way to my blog. Sad but true.

Although I have not been expressing through my blog all the epiphanies I have experienced as the new year rolls in, I have been cataloging them for future exploration.

Just the other afternoon, I made a list titled  ”Great Ideas To Get Out of My Head Before It Explodes”. Twenty items made it to the list in less than ten minutes. The list went from the more mundane tasks such as “air out the sun room carpets” to more intensely creative notes as “graph out spring gardens” and “begin outlining the articles of possibilities (essays on scriptures that impact my daily life)”.

So if I haven’t been writing, what I have I been doing???? I have been enjoying quite a bit of “mindful meandering”.

Matthew Tull, Phd. defines the idea of “mindfulness” as:

Mindfulness refers to being completely in touch with and aware of the present moment, as well as taking a non-evaluative and non-judgmental approach to your inner experience. For example, a mindful approach to one’s inner experience is simply viewing “thoughts as thoughts” as opposed to evaluating certain thoughts as positive or negative.

I have been practicing “mindfulness” for a year or two now and it has FINALLY become so much a part of my life that I don’t even have to “think” about it anymore (except perhaps as I am writing about it). This epiphany came at the oddest of moments.

Earlier this week Sam and I attended Lu’s 50th birthday party. It was during the festivities that I experienced a light bulb moment that flashed…”I can’t believe I am here wishing a hippo happy birthday and I am enjoying the heck out of it with nothing else on my mind but the thought:

‘ How can a hippo poop like that in it’s own home

and then eat cake?

Photos by Sam ~ Photographer Extraordinaire

Enjoy your day!!!