02.01.2023 | Ordinary Humpday

Another flip of the calendar and suddenly it's February.  We are one month closer to Spring.  One month closer to planting and growing and gardening again.  I'm feeling a bit restless to get back to it.  Yet, I am trying to enjoy the time in between.

We were rushing about yesterday getting bloodwork done then grocery shopping and few other chores.  Then home to make soup.  Beef Barley Soup.  A kind of kitchen sink soup with all the vegetables and lovely chunks of beef all melded together to create something amazing.  It's so magical to watch Dr. B add this or that and take simple, ordinary ingredients and somehow, put them together, and create something incredible.  

Simple, ordinary things that come together to create something incredible.  What a lovely thing. We encounter that coming together with friends around a table. Good food, good conversation, a lovely glass of wine and simple, ordinary things become extraordinary.  My prayers are for simplicity and ordinariness this year.  I'm ready to enjoy the simple pleasures.  I wish us all a simple, ordinary February filled with the simple, ordinary things that come together to create something incredible.  Amen.