There is nothing more peaceful than an early morning grocery store run.  It's quiet, the store is pretty empty, perhaps a little too empty but that's my mind working overtime and thinking about this horror movie I saw once.  Y'all know I digress...

Needed a few essentials before my work day started so I got up early, which is part of my daily routine and headed off to the store.  

The fresh flowers are all too beautiful giving me a glimpse of what is to come for Spring.  My favorite season by the way.  Colors so bright you would swear they are fake, but they are all part of God's beautiful gifts.

Quiet moments like this allow much needed time to clear my mind before the madness of the day starts.  I saw a familiar face, a lady who works at the store who is always so friendly, we chatted for a few minutes about perfume, which I can talk about all day.  This brief, yet meaningful conversation added to my very pleasant shopping experience and I just love that.

I went back and forth in my mind for approximately 23 seconds trying to justify the donut that was staring me in the face as I slowly walked past the bakery.  I knew the immediate and gratifying need for the sugar rush I was going to indulge in would be well worth the glycemic increase.  To buy the donut or to not buy the donut, how do I justify thee.

​Then I remembered what someone said recently, you have to live, now!  And so it is... 

​~AJ 🍩

Imagine going non-stop down a busy road with no end in sight.  This is how my mind works.  It never stops thinking, wondering, imagining, hoping, longing, wishing and praying.  

I appreciate the gift of thought, however, at times it can prove to be a bit overwhelming, so I have to literally force myself to stop and just be.  Being one within myself is calming to my spirit, it allows me to relax and turn off my brain which as a writer I am learning to do with great ease without feeling as if I have failed.

With that being said... I've been twirling lots of thoughts in my head.  Ideas for my first book, which started quite a few years prior.  I am my own timeline, there is no rush or need to prove myself to anyone, but me.  Projects that I want to jump into inside my home, which, by the way are also never ending.  It creates a sense of happiness only a DIYer' would understand.  The changes I will make in my garden this year knowing the more flower beds I add the more maintenance I will have to deal with.  Hobbies are work but when you truly love it, the work turns into passion.

As I continue to pull inspiration from others and continue on my daily walk through life I realize how much of a true blessing it is to feel anything really.  To have thoughts that consume me, ideas that change like the wind and thoughts that take over as if I have to get it all done immediately.  Some of those 'have to get it done right now ideas' have turned into pretty amazing projects might I add.

Although my thoughts are quite loud I have a level of peace that is unfazed by the noise.  

​~AJ 💡