Delight Your Heart

Random Acts of Kindness I do or like to do:

• Leave angel cards in sugar bowls of restaurants
• Volunteer at the Marine Sanctuary Exploration Center, reading to toddlers
• Let them interrupt
• Paying sincere compliments
• Donate towels and blankets to the SPCA
• Send handwritten thank you notes in the mail
• Have fresh flowers from my garden in my office and home
• Bring banana bread to the new neighbor
• Ask people their first name and remember them
• Move people's trash cans when they get knocked over
• Leave notes for folks with nice gardens
• Lammas - the unexpected gift 
• Leave love notes
• Give myself the gift of time
• Smile at people
• Make good eye contact
• Chayla videos
• Keep the house/ temple beautiful
• Buying mom the iPad, teaching her to use it
• Driving to Stockton to visit Amber every two weeks for four years
• Be flexible in changing client appointments
• Refer out to my colleagues
• Pick up the tab
• Leave the flotsam and jetsam from past relationships as treasures for others to find
• Cook four quiches at a time to feed me and my family
• Give myself time to read during the day
• Allow space when driving on the freeway
• Slow down
• Stop being mean to myself
• Love my Self more

What are you doing to delight your heart today?

Nature's Generosity

Driving out to the lighthouse at Point Reyes, seeing the long stretches of shoreline washing turquoise over the sand, reminds me of the generosity of nature, the infinite caresses along the shoreline, the enduring patience of the sea.

The ocean is bountiful and generous in her treasures, feeding us, giving us ways to transport our goods and travel the world. The wind provides free energy for sails, the sun is just asking to harvest her rays. Even the times I see the kudzu overtaking a rusty truck, here is nature simply reclaiming with infinitesimal confidence the natural order of entropy and return to the source. 

The cows chew their cud, not knowing who they will feed, with steak and ribs, unperturbed by their fate, accepting the random kindness of a stranger rubbing their face, giving free grass over the barbwire fence when I stopped by the side of the road to take a picture of the red barn in the grey fog. 

The crows have plenty say, doling out caws and criticism, chattering in the redwood tree outside the bay window. Maybe so do I. As I stretch my back and shoulders, breathing in the clarifying breeze, I ruffle my own feathers, present in the moment, aware of the luxury of time. And not only do I have plenty of time - but every moment counts.