Describe one simple thing you do that brings joy to your life.
Simple things bring joy to my life. I don’t need anything big, complicated, or expensive to bring me joy. In fact, I’m doing that simple thing right now. I’m sitting. It’s a cool morning and my husband and I are sitting in the backyard, under the huge magnolia tree, letting our dogs burn off whatever crazy energy they had this morning, while we just sit. I have a book next to me. When I’m finished with this post, I’ll pick it up and read for a while.
Eventually we’ll go back inside and do something productive. I’ll pretend that I’m really going to fold all of the clean laundry that has piled up from the past two weeks of telling myself the same thing.
At some point, I’ll sit down again. Maybe I’ll pull out a yarn project. I have two new ones that I’m excited to start working on since I finished the blanket for the Loose Ends project. One project will be gifted to my secretary, she’s getting married today. The other will be for the tattoo artist who has been inking my “blue hair” vision onto my arm for the past two months. I’ll give it to him whenever our last appointment is.
Just sitting really is where it’s at for me and joy. It’s not that I don’t have the energy to do other things, but I simply can’t get enough of the fact that there are no other things that I have to do. My hobbies are quiet ones. I enjoy the relaxation that comes from sitting and doing them. That’s all the joy I need.
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