Daily 5 - Year 2, Day 23

Today's Daily 5:

1. Cookies for breakfast
2. Sunshine on my face as I waited for the bus
3. A visit to Sheep River Falls
4. A funny, private smile at a moment with a raven at the falls
5. being all set to take the bus home, and then being offered a ride instead

Monday...

I'm feeling like I don't have a lot to say right now.  Like my internal life is just kind of quiet, and waiting.

I'm looking forwards to an upcoming trip, and back at a number of things that affected my life more profoundly than I ever could have realized.

I'm just sort of paused.

This week is a lot about spending time with visiting family that I only see every five years or so.

It's weird to be with people who are family who feel like strangers.

But we're making it work.  Or at least I am.  They don't feel quite so much like strangers to my parents, I guess.

And with that... I'm off... there are things to be done today.

Daily 5 - Year 2, Day 22

Today's Daily 5:

1. Crepes at A Ladybug Cafe
2. roasted potatoes for supper
3. wrapping up in a soft warm blanket
4. clean drinking water
5. pausing for a few minutes to just sit

Daily 5 - Year 2, Day 21

Today's Daily 5:

1. "Holding" the door for a pair of peacocks at the zoo this morning - they wander the grounds freely, and wanted to leave the building to join two others just outside, but weren't large enough to trip the sensors for the sliding doors, so I "held" the doors open for them as they slowly ambled through.
2. Watching the hippos eat breakfast - they're kind of like vacuum cleaners, but big, chubby, enormous, scary, and very funny vacuum cleaners that heave themselves into a bath once they're done cleaning.
3. sitting down on a bench to eat my own breakfast and having the zebras walk over to check me out
4. the laughter of small children
5. colobus monkeys and cotton top tamarins, with their tiny serious faces
6. the majesty of the butterfly garden, and it's warm, damp, sweet smelling air
7. the face of a little girl, hand over her mouth in delight when she spotted the gelato stall at the farmer's market
8. spinach and goat feta hummus
9. the smell of the rain
10. eating supper with relatives at my favorite Mexican restaurant

Daily 5 - Year 2, Day 20

Today's Daily 5:
You can read about how and why the daily 5 started here.

1. 1 year and 20 days of making daily 5 lists
2. smiling as I thought of an upcoming trip
3. getting some cleaning/organizing/purging done at home
4. setting (and actually maintaining) a boundary that helped maintain some sanity
5. hearing some great lines from Grey's Anatomy all over again, and being challenged by them