Day 149 of Thanksgiving....

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Today I am so very Thankful for Quiet Time!  When I was much younger, I had a wonderful friend that I worked with and she was a bit older than me.  She would tell me that she would be up early in the morning and I could never understand how it took her so long to get ready for our 8:30 start time.  Then one day she told me that she had trouble getting out of her chair where she would sit quietly with her cup of coffee and her small dogs and contemplate her day.  What??  I was the Mom of small boys and once I crawled out of bed there was no sitting - only in the final leg of my drive to the office did I sit and relax - just a little.  Well now I am older too and no longer working and I so cherish my sitting quiet time each and every day possible.  I see how friends are doing online, say prayers for those who need them, think about my day and most important of all, enjoy a cup of coffee and feel so very thankful for my life, my family and yes my fur babies too.  What a blessing a little quiet time can be!!  What a blessed perspective it can give.  For someone like me who tends to fill quiet with way too much chatter, the old adage about being still and quiet to hear the whisper of angels is so very true.

Day 87 of Thanksgiving...

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Today I am so very Thankful for Quiet Time!   For so many years I rarely had a minute of peace unless I was asleep or I could grab a few minutes in the bathroom and both were subject to interruption.  Now I am not complaining - I wouldn't trade our busy lives for anything.  But...one of the blessings of getting older is sometimes you have a minute to think and reflect.  It have found that it is very hard to keep things in perspective and do what I need to do if there is no time to be quiet and listen to my thoughts.  This is a very busy world we live in and we are all so connected to buzzing, ringing, dinging objects.  Even my four legged family members demand attention and they do not give in until they get mine. Today, while sitting outside, I noticed it was fairly quiet  and peaceful with the exception of a lone black bird sitting atop a pine tree and he was barking out a message to the world.  Oh well it was nice while it lasted.  So - for today I am so very thankful for the moments that I can grab peace and quiet and reflect.