I'm going to give Five Minute Friday another whirl. Mostly because actually remembered to do it this Friday. TGIF!- 1. Write for 5 minutes flat – no editing, no over thinking, no backtracking.
2. Link back here (The Gypsy Mama) and invite others to join in.
3. Go all out encouraging the writer who linked up before you.
OK, are you ready? Give me your best five minutes:
Ordinary
We've been bombarded for the last month and a half with scenery that makes you stop and stare and absorb every last bit of it. We have been enjoying new foods and activities within a short 20-30 minute drive at the most usually. And we even have a DVR that makes our television viewing easier to enjoy.
But the one thing that we've been craving lately is the familiar, the ordinary. Something as trivial as a Mary Kay party the other night wrapped me up in a warm blanket memories and recognition of things that I've known before. The weather is different here, the landscape is different, and living in town has been a big change, but my Mary Kay party grounded me again in the ordinary life. And it felt nice to be invited to something and belonging somewhere.
I know by this time next year I'll be wondering where the months went. Right now, though, the less extraordinary moments in life are just as welcome.
TIME'S UP!
Hope you are enjoying the warm weather in the Midwest (albeit windy, from what I understand). We are missing the sights and sounds of harvest this year and feeling a little melancholy. May all of our farming friends and family reap a bumper crop.
~Paula
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