Finally! A sunny, humidity-free morning on the porch:
Have a lovely Sunday.
I’m linking to Elaine’s Sunny Simple Sunday.
Porch Perspectives
Looking Beyond the Surface
I had a conversation with a dear friend yesterday about making judgments too quickly. About looking at a situation or a person and making a quick assumption about that person, that situation, without taking the time to look a little more deeply. Don and I have conversations about this sort of thing all the time. And it’s invariably sparked by one or both of us saying something like “I assumed this or that about X. I was so wrong.”
It’s a life lesson I keep learning.
For example, I looked at this beautiful coneflower and saw the flower:
Then, using the lens of my camera, I looked a little more closely and saw this:
There was much more going on than I originally thought.
A quick glance while watering showed me green leaves. Until I took the time to look a little more deeply.
And I saw this little guy, designed to blend in with the plants, but not really part of the plant. A new detail. More information. A change of thought about the picture I was seeing.
One of the ideas I hold dearest to my heart is this:
A miracle is a change in thought.
It’s that simple and that hard. But each time we suspend our assumptions, look a little more deeply and stop that impulse to judge, a little miracle occurs. Things shift. Ideas change. Clarity emerges. A door opens.
Just sharing some thoughts on this Wednesday morning.
Friday Question: Do You Own a Smartphone?
Ask me what time I got up this morning.
4 am. Yep. 4 am. And I went to bed after midnight.
Riley has had a few accidents during the night lately. I deliberately stayed up late last night in order to give him some extra time to get ‘bathroom ready.’ The problem is that he is so sleepy by that time that nothing works, if you know what I mean. So when I awoke at 4, I thought I should come downstairs to check out the situation. It wasn’t good.
After clean-up, I tried to go back to sleep but it just wasn’t working. At about 5:30 am, I heard a bark. Back downstairs again. No Riley. Where the heck was he? I found him in the bathroom. Hey, at least he was able to get up by himself! At this point, I figured I should just stay up and I made coffee. That little dickens got up twice more – one time to let me know he had to pee. Okay, Riley. You’ve atoned for your mishap in the middle of the night.
So, as one does in the early am, at least, as this one does, I opened the laptop and read my email. I also charged my iPhone. One of the emails concerned an app for iPhones and iPads called Shakespeare Pro. It has everything Shakespeare wrote – including the Sonnets and a Glossary. Cost? $1.99. (It’s currently on sale.) Oh my. How perfect for this Shakespeare Voice and Text Coach.
(Please excuse photo quality. It’s not easy getting a good photo this early in the morning!)
It got me thinking about just how amazing smartphones are. I can grab my phone, open this app and find any piece of text that I need. Wow. I can take pictures. I can check the weather. I can listen to my music library. I can check my email and read your comments. I don’t use it nearly as much as some people do – I rarely text, for example – but it has been invaluable to me.
Don, who said he didn’t want a smartphone, is changing his tune. He mentioned to me that he just might need one. He’s away from home and will be again in autumn and I know first hand how helpful it is to have an iPhone when you’re away from home. I imagine I will do what I did when I purchased my phone; wait for the new iPhone to hit the stores and then buy the older version at a much cheaper price.
So here’s my question this Friday morning. Do you own a smartphone? If you do, what do you use it for? Or have you held off on this kind of purchase? Or do you simply have no desire for one?
Please share. It’s now 7:16 am and I need something to keep me awake for the rest of the day!
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