I just love plants

Outside my window sits a tiny planter.

Inside this small garden I am growing- Parsley, Mint, Rosemary and Basil.
I love gardening. Although I know it is more complex then just putting seeds in the earth at times, I relish in the fact at how 'grounding' the practice is (mind the pun).

Even though I live in a small, one bedroom apartment and lack the yard that I ideally want (and am determined to one day have). I can't help but smile at the fact that I am currently growing 'something'. What makes it even more satisfying is that I can also use what I am growing in my cooking. Cooking of course is another one of my favourite past-times. I am definitely a Taurean!

Perhaps I am just an old soul, but people my age don't seem to relish in gardens, flowers and plants the way that I do. My heart sings whenever I catch a whimsical note of floral perfume in the air as I skip by. Gardens are beautiful, I just can't wait to do more and more of it.

Maybe, I'll make some friends with some farmers and old people who delight in pruning their rose bushes and lemon trees! If I wasn't where I was then I'd like to be amongst plants. I'd love to work in a vineyard, or a farm, or a nursery!

I just love plants

A Practice Of Gratitude

For a while now I've adopted a new outlook on life. A Happy One. My hopes for this blog will be to both inspire and be a place to express my gratitude in life. When I decided to make this particular blog I was in a supreme mood of uber happiness. Words really couldn't describe how or why I felt so amazing but it's fitting I continue to write whenever I get to this level again. So this is what this blog is for, both for me and for you. It's a happy space and a space of gratitude.

Let me explain further, I have discovered or perhaps "remembered" that to be happy is simply that... "be happy". It is simple yet also complex and to me that is inherently truthful an beautiful. Happier people can spread happiness an light to the darkest of spaces. Think about light and darkness for a moment...

When it is the darkest, it is impossible to make it any darker, but light can always be intensified..I'm sure there are people that would want to argue with me on that one. But, this is how I understand it. Light can be increased in intensity, of course there will be a saturation point, but with true darkness.... If there is light in a dark spot, then it is definitely recognizable.

Everyone who reaches the supreme stage of happiness, contentment,enlightenment, presence,peace (call it what you will) will have undoubtedly gone through hardships. I only can speak of experience here... ultimately the power to decide you want change is within you. The desire to act on it is within you too.

What intrigues me most about this experience - the quest for happiness is that once you get it, it becomes apparent that you didn't need anything else... You just needed yourself to agree with what you knew all along.

I'd like to end on some things that made me extra happy this morning because my belief now is I am always happy. Even when I am not particularly having a fantastic day, I choose to believe that I am a Happy Person - just having a challenging experience.

I Am Happy because -
The glorious sunlight was just so warming and re-energizing during my morning walk.
I saw an abundance of gorgeous, sweet smelling flowers and dewy roses.
The birds were chirping and lively
I had a spring in my step
And I couldn't stop smiling!

So- why are you happy today?