Sharing Delights
Living gratefully today, I give thanks for the challenges and rewards of this school year as it winds down, and for colleagues and students who deliver smiles and energy. I am grateful for week’s end and a weekend ahead.
Even late in the year, delights can be found in a school and the people within it. Delights, delightfully shared this week in my writing and our most recent Rivertown Gratefulness Gathering have helped me find energy at an exhausting time. Delights shared are a wonderful contribution to the flow of positive energy in a day, in a world in need of more joy and light.
Here are a few more observed and experienced delights from my week:
*To see the first hummingbird of the season–fleeting but always fascinating
*Considering the idea that not only humans can experience delight. Do I give delight to the laundry by throwing it in the washer for a cleaning and freshening up? Do I give it delight when I fold it or hang it back up? Even this pondering makes me feel a sense of connection I didn’t otherwise have to the mundane task of doing the laundry.
*The delight, after a quick repair, of four of us taking an evening bike ride amid the splendid greens and other color bursts of springtime.
And then there is the generative energy created when we share delights, just like when we share gratefulness:
*One Billion Happier People is a creation of my friend Steve Foran. It is not only powerful to note and share our own gratitudes, but also to read from others. It is fortifying and hopeful when I read what brings others joy and delight. I encourage you to join this community.
*Poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer shares a poem a day on her blog “A Hundred Falling Veils” and Wednesday’s was simply delightful.
*Poet and author Ross Gay has written “The Book of Delights.” Here is a video clip of him reading some of the wonderful essays in it:
Explore delight today. Keep exploring it in the moments life and Nature have to offer. Share it. Write it. Honor it. Let’s build up our stores of delight. We need to tap into them regularly to keep hope and connections alive. Onward!
