Every new year is an exciting time of evaluating, revisiting, considering, and...musing. One of the things I've been musing on is this blog. My first musing was to consider the importance of this blog to me, and with no hesitation acknowledged that I find writing this blog a BLAST! It's a comfortable format, and I find it allows me to be creative in a way that is in line with my modest abilities.
My next musing was to consider in what ways I might sustain both my own interest and that of whatever audience might be stopping by for a visit. I considered that perhaps I needed more pizzaz, more excitement, more
In order for that to happen, however, I'd have to add more
to my life. Hmmmm. In fact, after years of adrenaline-stoked work, I've been leaning more toward
which is to say, the ordinary.
That led me to an on-line investigation of the value of an ordinary life. There I found plenty of affirmation:
..... let us not confuse
ordinariness with failure, or (worse) with mediocrity, or (worse yet) with
chronic inferiority (to what, who knows?). But let us be sure to equate
ordinariness with a self-knowing, a clarity about things, and the courage to stand
in the space between life as we dream it and life as it is.
Andrew Breeden
Time stands still best in moments that look
suspiciously like ordinary life.
Brian Andreas
A good life is when you assume nothing, do
more, need less, smile often, dream big, laugh a lot and realize how blessed
you are for what you have.
Unknown
...
make the ordinary come alive....the extraordinary will take care of itself.”
William Martin
There's a lot of beauty in ordinary things. Isn't that kind of the point?
Pam Halpert
Certainly I anticipate many adventures that will still invoke
but since I've been consistently feeling EXTRAORDINARILY pleased with my ordinary life, I've concluded these musings well satisfied to enjoy and share my life as
There
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