{"id":2342,"date":"2018-08-31T15:55:54","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T19:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/?p=2342"},"modified":"2018-08-31T15:55:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T19:55:54","slug":"while-outside-my-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/?p=2342","title":{"rendered":"while outside my window…"},"content":{"rendered":"

To begin the day,\u00a0 before I am wanting to be awake
\nI flip the bird to the morning creeping in my window
\nwell, not specifically to the morning, but rather to the person who is honking their horn
\noutside on the street
\nrudely disturbing sleeping beauty (errgh!)
\nalthough this hardly describes me this morning,\u00a0 nor is it my first time awake
\nas I have had to be up once already to let the dog out
\nas well as once in the night, just after I had nicely drifted off to sleep
\nI am tired and as my daughter\u2019s like to say –\u00a0 a little \u2018cranks\u2019
\nactually I think it is safe to say,
\na LOT cranks
\nand I know it,\u00a0 the only good thing about this mood, I suppose
\nis today, I do know ..\u00a0 it is definitely \u2026\u00a0\u00a0 me
\nin a quick \u2018save-yourself\u2019 kind of fashion my husband has gone off to work
\nprobably best
\nfor both of us
\nto be fair, the neighbour\u2019s dog who is again incessantly yelping outside
\nwould indeed annoy anyone who has to listen to it
\nfor well over an hour
\nand while it grinds on my nerves
\nI do recognize that it is really the sound of anguish (not a regular kind of bark)
\nand I feel a slight compassion for the sadly neglected pooch
\nbut I really WISH IT WOULD STOP!!!!
\nthe cicada tries to take over in full voice,\u00a0 by averting my attentions
\nand I appreciate the kindness
\npicking up my camera, \u00a0I feel the pull to
\nwander
\nas a balm
\nas a way to allow myself grace and ease
\nto a walk among the flowers
\nalmost immediately the hummingbirds arrive
\nand then the monarch
\nthe sun shines, and the sky above, the most gorgeous stretch of azure blue
\nI take some time to watch the bees
\nand greet a rather gentlemanly grasshopper
\nI watch the light as it highlights the colours of each petal<\/p>\n

this morning I read:
\nWhen tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness<\/em><\/span>
\nin small things.\u00a0 Where is beauty to be found?\u00a0 In great things that, like everything else are doomed to die, or in small things that aspire to nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in a single moment?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

and I allow these words to dance around inside me
\nin spirals and swirls
\nas I wander…<\/p>\n

when later,\u00a0 I am sitting to try and write myself out of a cloud
\nmy daughter brings her bird over and sits his cage just off to my right shoulder
\nso that he too can best enjoy
\nthe sunshine
\nand while I write he sits close by and softly chats away
\nsuch a lovely fellow is he, in the softest of yellow
\nand I tell him just how beautiful
\nhe
\nis
\nwe chatter and he consoles and then,
\nanother hummingbird comes to the flower outside the window
\nwe stop…\u00a0 and we watch
\nand I
\nbreathe
\nI look up at the sky and see an elongated feathery white cloud
\nI watch a very large bee bury himself in a flower
\nand then…
\nagain my little friend resumes his chat
\nand i speak to him of
\npretty things and gentle things and
\ngratitude
\nas the kettle starts
\nto whistle<\/p>\n

as is always the case it seems,
\nthe antidote to a kind of cranky sort of day (and most things)<\/p>\n

is a little free space
\na little sunshine
\na little kindness
\na nice
\ncup of tea<\/p>\n

and a lovely pair of
\nwings\u00a0 \u2665<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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