go play...

Yesterday I washed my back porch where I sit and have coffee in the AM, read in the afternoons, and sometimes watch tv (with the mosquitoe coils burning and the fan going) in the evening.

But anyway, I took all the furniture off--2 chairs, a footstool, my Ikea rattan lounger and a table, poured on the water and pinesol, scrubbed it with a broom, then hosed it off. We are talking CLEAN. Then I put everything back on (the day before I had taken all my hanging ferns down, watered them and put them back) and now feel great satisfaction everytime I look at it. This morning sitting on my newly clean porch I ate a bowl of cherrios with mango and blueberries while I watched Joel Osteen on TV.
It'll stay clean like this for a while, then it'll get another bath. But this will last for a month or so before the city dust settles on it again.

I love doing things that last--like washing a porch or painting something, like making a garden. Like working on myself--working the Steps, , taking my inventory, practicing forgiveness, being grateful, learning how to love more. Not a here today and gone tomorrow thing. Bit by bit, minute by minute, day by day, it adds up.

That's it for today. I'll add links another time. But here's something to play with meanwhile----http://www.jacksonpollock.org/