Monday

I’m up early this morning, a preview of school mornings to come. The sun hasn’t broken the horizon yet. There’s a mist hanging over the ground. The humidity is high, the temperature not as much.

For the next few days, I’ll be rising early and getting the granddaughter school for a preview “camp”.

The prognosticators are all up in the air about an early August cold front headed our way… Though, they’re unsure as to whether it’ll actually pass us here on the coast. It will be nice to at least be touched by a cold front in the middle of summer. Though cold in these instances is a relative term.

My friend Linda has a post up this morning on her blog, The Task at Hand, about childhood memories of coffee drinking, death, and near death. It’s a well woven tale and everyone should check out…

“Well, Sunshine,” Grandpa would say, refolding the paper a third time as he prepared to get back to his chores, “We’re not goners yet.” He always grinned, and I’d smile right back. It was a new day, waiting to be lived.

To Rise, to Stand, and to Live AUGUST 1, 2021 ~ SHOREACRES

And my buddy, Gary Myers, has a nice well thought out offering today over at Redtree Times… Another good way to start the morning. He shares the following quote

He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who has left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of earth’s beauty or failed to express it; who has always looked for the best in others and given the best he had; whose life was an inspiration; whose memory a benediction.

Bessie Stanley, The Emporia Gazette 1905

Well, I’m ready for my second cup of coffee… And I won’t be saucer and blowing it. Though, like Linda that’s how I learned to drink coffee. But I will be contemplating the effects and the nuances of lives well lived… So, I’ll stay safe, stay healthy, and pray for all of us which I’ll use a little divine intervention about now… But I have a feeling what it’s really going to take is a divine mandate…