Friday Writings #153: My cup runneth over

  

 

Hello again, dear fellow Word Weavers.

Someone posted a meme on facebook the other day which I liked so much that I shared it there, and now here:

It’s very easy to think of all the truly bad situations in our world today. There are plenty of them! I don’t think we should bury our heads in the sand and ignore them, either — but that’s not what this meme advocates. It only suggests that we look also at the beauty and the wonder which are still here to be found.

When I do that — being lucky enough to live in a particularly scenic region with an abundance of natural beauty —  I always think, ‘Why would anyone ever want to live anywhere else?’ and, when I contemplate my very pleasant life, ‘My cup runneth over.’

So, for your optional prompt this week, I invite you too to turn your attention for a moment to the things you delight in, which make you feel blessed and glad to be alive in spite of all the bad, and tell us about them in your writings this week.

Guidelines, as always: 

you may give us poetry or prose, old or new, on prompt or off
post that one item to your blog
share that post via Mister Linky below
maximum word count 369 (excluding title and notes)
please read and comment on others’ efforts
talk to us in the notes here too, if you wish.

Please note, we are having lots of thunderstorms here this week, during which I unplug all devices (having lost some to lightning strikes in the past) so I might not get to look at your posts immediately. However I will get to them; I love to read you all.

Next week, Magaly will invite us to find inspiration in opposite concepts (i.e., light and dark, happy and sad, rich and poor, hot and cold, good and bad…). 

 

And here are a few scenes in my locality. (My own photos.)