The daily grind can be downright frustrating, annoying, and discouraging.
There’s a threshold for tolerating such nonsense. Listening to others’ word vomit. Inching through traffic moving no faster than a slimy snail. Doing thankless jobs and tasks. Then, it becomes too much.
Yet, many of those irritations remain unavoidable. We have to put up with them.
On my good days or in my good moments, I weave in delight by doing little things.
Taking some time to observe what’s around me and enjoy what’s there is one example.
I was running late yesterday, but I paused to enjoy this flower. Actually, it was more than a momentary stop. Someone lent me a camera with a macro lens. I couldn’t resist. I don’t have the images, yet. But, drinking in the beauty and playing with a macro lens made me giddy with excitement.
Food is another instance. I can’t eat just to get eating done. Well, I can, but that’s not preferable.
I prefer food that is filled with mouth-watering deliciousness, exquisiteness and beauty.
So, for breakfast this morning, I created this dish: seared salmon over porridge, with shiitake mushrooms (a favorite) and Nicoise olives to further tease the taste buds.
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It was so good, and it brightened the start of my day.
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What do you do to make life delicious, one bite at a time?
I’ve shared two things.
Now it’s your turn.
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What do I do to make life delicious, one bite at a time? Lately? The “Party Size” bag of Milk Chocolate M&M’s. We lay them out on the table. She selects her M&M’s carefully, two at a time, color-matched (of course) and eats them slowly, savoring them. I try that, two at a time — sometimes the colors match, sometimes they don’t — and melt the hard candy off the chocolate, then savor the chocolate hiding inside, when its soft and creamy. But unlike her, at some point, I lose patience with this dainty method: I get to where I just want to CRUNCH the things and experience big bursts of flavor. Advice: Don’t do this M&M thing too close to bedtime. Can keep you up buzzing a bit. (Chocolate does have caffeine.) Also, don’t let the size of the package lead you down the wrong path. The Party Size keeps the cost-per-M&M quite low. And we don’t extinguish an entire package in a single sitting! (Puh-leez!) Far from it. Lasts a long time. Days, even. We’re not (quite) certifiable. Not yet, anyway.
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Party on, big bursts at a time!
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