It always was, 'Face, except for the part about "take time to smell the flowers".
You have been doing that, haven't you? -- I was doing it a day or so ago. I had taken my wife to an early medical appointment, and was waiting for her to finish up. The weather was unpromising, windy, rainy, and overcast. Quite abruptly the sky cleared and the sunshine smote down as a reminder of something. I looked around and spotted the corner of a rainbow.
"Yes," I said, "thanks for reminding me."
Good morning, Bob. I had the same kind of thoughts on Friday, when we were studying aquatic macroinvertebrates at Mecklenburg County Stormwater Services. Each of those tiny larvae and insects is as amazing, in its way, as a bird or a whale or a primate.
It’s often been observed that human beings have a universal inclination to develop mythologies of the very beautiful, the very ugly, the fearsome and helpful ... but nothing we imagine is as spectacular as nature, if only we buckle down and study the big and small, the terrestrial and aquatic and subterranean world.
I have been blessed of late with being able to behold several rainbows! Some on the seemingly most unforgiving of days. The Epic Fail Lawn Killers and Sprinklerhead Decapitation Service has been here for the first time this year, so I suspect they may have unearthed something beautiful. I just have to wait to witness its emergence.
I’m acutely aware of those things that surround me and especially in this area of mountains, bluffs and mesas. There is something beautiful to see in every day.
I even appreciate the windy, rainy, and overcast (except when it flattens my little town).