Gratitude Challenge -- Day 10

1.  Lithia Park.   Everyday during this colorful season, a walk through and around this beautiful park gives one a different view--today the beginnings of color; tomorrow a burst of red and gold flame.  Deer roam freely--looking up as one passes to say walk quietly and don't trample my lovely home.  The stream runs amid boulders spilling into pools and meandering under walking bridges.  The sound of its gentle flow gives way to a new tenderness in one's heart--a gift of the park.

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our heart.

                       --- William Hazlitt 

2.  My English/Scottish Country Dance class.   I'm beginning my third year of classes.   I now know another language:  duple minor, triple minor, first and second diagonals, clover leaf turn, fall back.  And when our language skills lag and movements less than perfect, we smile and catch up on the next move.  The friendships that develop in class are people we want to be with!

 

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

                  --- Jane Austen