each thursday a small gathering of my church family come together to check in with ourselves and we try different types of meditation. 15 minutes of absolute quite with a certain tactic to guide our minds into a place of peace.
today we tried, "i am very blessed because...." and for the 15 we counted our blessings. it was delightful because the funniest things kept coming into my mind. so many blessings! afterward we shared some of the things that we were thinking and i had to confess that i spent most of my time thinking about the circus that i watched outside my door today, well everyday actually. i have two squirrels who like to visit my deck and eat the bird food. there is one with a big fluffy tail who politely walks across the balcony and gentle picks out his favorite morsels. then there is the skinny tailed squirrel who propels himself out of nowhere from the tree outside and lands directly into the bowl of bird seed. seed goes flying everywhere and he sits there like his is all that. it must be an insecurity about that sad looking tail.
the birds come and clean up after him but he eventually comes back in the same fashion and then turns his attention to my rugs... he pulls them up and around looking for whatever the birds left and pays no attention to me when i go out and tell him to stop. he just looks at me as if i am bothering his groove.
its a lovely sight to see. i am very blessed to have it happen every day.
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