The Simple Things

Lovely Christina, at soul aperture, invited bloggers and friends to create lists of Simple Things that bring joy and contentment, even when January threatens the blahs and blues.  Here's my winter list of simple things that always make me smile.

   Losing myself in a little boy’s brown eyes

Listening to my daughter sing:

You are My Sunshine to my grandson each evening

Hearing my son’s baritone voice say, “I love you Mom,”

before he goes back to his world in Colorado

My dad’s favorite baseball cap sitting on top of my computer desk

Cleveland Indians Forever

 Wrapped in a “storm at sea” quilt created by the loving hands of my mom

Feather pillows enclosed in a lacy-edged case

 

Running my hand over the bumpy nodes on the paper inside a grass journal

 

Lavender soaps wrapped in paper and tied with ribbon piled in a bowl

 

Tea in a pretty cup rimmed in gold with peach roses circling round it

 

Warm chocolate chip cookies, just out of the oven, dunked in ice-cold milk

 

Getting so caught up in renewing an old friendship that we forget lunch

 

Brand new warm, wooly socks

 

Favorite books stacked in a pile on the desk

 

Words that sing straight to my heart

 

The new shoots on my rosemary plant wintering over indoors

 

 

An undaunted sun, shining through the naked branches of trees,

offering a promise of spring