Dear Reader:

It does work! I couldn’t resist the urge to crack an egg on the ledge of my deck around 3:00 yesterday…. Then I forgot about it for about half an hour before I went to look and there it was… a fried egg….of sorts… but definitely cooked by the sun….solar cooking! It is hot out there folks…Crazy hot!

Yesterday (for the first time) my moon flower vines had buds on them….the rain storm, Wednesday night, brought so many good benefits with it….soon I will finally have a moon flower bloom. Stay tuned. I can hardly wait!

I have decided that children are natural born swimmers. Just having a pool with a child in it over a period of time produces swimmers….the children watch, then try it, then practice it, and bingo…they are doing it.

Last year Jakie didn’t care about the pool at all/cried at getting in….now he jumps in and floats all around the pool just doing his thing and loving it.

Eva Cate has made a new friend, Lily, who will go to her school (James B. Edwards) next year…..they are spending Tuesdays and Thursdays split between their homes together this summer.

Lily’s grandmother took the girls to Paiges Okra Grill on Coleman and then on to the movies yesterday. She took a photo shot of them on the big rocking chair in front of the restaurant. Mandy is loving this new friendship…for many reasons…sharing the summer with another caregiver makes the days shorter for moms with little children.

One nice thing about it being so hot…it’s too hot to do much but reflect and relinquish some stress to the memories of carefree summer days from our childhood. As Carl Jung observed about leisure time: “If you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you find time to create yourself.”

Like the insurance company ad on television where the couple can find any and everything to do rather than call their insurance agent to sit down with him/her and work out a long-term insurance plan….Don’t we all do the same thing with finding something or anything to do rather than have a good talk with our inner self….our soul?

It can be scary but the more we take time to check in with our soul…the better we begin to see our role in this universe and the creative abilities we were given to benefit others.

We don’t have to be able to dance, sing, play an instrument, act, paint, build or any other artistic activity….recreating ourselves to make a difference in another’s life can be as simple as planting a flower bed, nurturing a child, cooking a meal, sewing a curtain or closing a deal. If the end objective results in helping someone else then we did use our creative strengths.

So until tomorrow…Let us recognize what a wonderful life we are living while we are living it….And not wait to recognize the sad reflection one day that we wished we had realized it sooner.

“Today is my favorite day”  Winnie the Pooh

Delight of the Day: My old-fashioned long-leaf sunflower bushes have grown tall with beautiful yellow-looking sun flowers forming a perimeter around my wonderful “Boo’s Potting Shed” sign.