I Love My Ordinary Life

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Photo via Sarah Rhoads.

Lately I've been thinking about how much I adore the simple moments of my life. How happy I am when I allow myself permission to be ordinary, to live an ordinary life, and to be in love with my life.

We don't have to be ambitious every day. We don't have to focus on the future, the next step, the right goal for what's coming later. We can be here, now.

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We can enjoy the small things: a walk in the snow, a cup of tea, a long hug. The taste of a home cooked meal. A laugh shared with a friend. Knowing your partner loves you back. Watching a cloud float by.

This is what it really means to live in the moment: to love an experience as it happens. This peaceful presence produces gratitude in the heart, and allows us to be fully intimate with our own lives, our own selves.

Photo via Sarah Rhoads.

Here are some blogs I love because they capture the beauty and magical nature of the everyday: Public::Bookstore, Sweet Fine Day, Pacing the Panic Room, Foxtail and Fern, Threading in the Choirs, Simple Village Girl, Angela Hardison and 3191 Miles Apart. These bloggers know how to capture simple moments that are worth treasuring -- nothing too fancy, just life.

What do you read or look at when you're in the mood to cherish the little things?