A joyful heart is good medicine.
When I read this verse I always think of a potted geranium on the kitchen table.
When things get busy and I am apt to feel overwhelmed and over stimulated I remember
the joy of a simple, old-fashioned red geranium sitting in a sunny spot on the kitchen table.
All the modern science has found it to be true.
A joyful heart is good medicine.
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I have taken up knitting again. I am having so much fun with it!
I went to a grandma's attic sale at a local church and purchased
a big, beautiful, hand made basket filled with all sorts of natural yarn.
There is a mixture of beautiful colours and natural fibers.
Wool, silk, cotton, mohair....
Thank goodness for being able to look things up on the internet because after taking a 30 or so year
knitting hiatus I was in need of a refreshing lesson or two.
I spent a few months knitting squares which I will turn into a crazy quilt type afghan.
I think I'm just about practiced enough to make a sweater!
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Autumn in New England is just the most beautiful time of year.
Nathaniel Hawthorne once said, "I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumn sunshine
by staying in the house."
And, Anne of Greene Gables once said, "I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers"
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My daughter's garden is "autumning" and I love to see all the flowers, herbs, and vegetables
in abundant seed. She tries to plant mostly native and saves seed for planting the following spring.
She was sipping her coffee while walking through her garden the other morning while we were
on the phone and told me, "There is a grasshopper asleep on the goldenrod."
A few days older my older daughter told me that she had brought some goldenrod into her house
to put in a vase and as she began to cut the stems a very fuzzy, very sleepy bumblebee tumbled out onto the counter.
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I, too am in the autumn of my life and heading toward my winter at a fairly steady clip. Perhaps that is why I love the autumn garden so much. Not so much accepting the winter, though I know that time will come, but rather, embracing the joyousness of an abundant autumn harvest and wondering what kinds of grasshoppers and bumblebees will tumble out of my stems and branches as I make my way through the garden of my life.
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A joyful heart is good medicine.
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What is bringing your heart joy these days?
Let's share our joys.
A joyful heart appreciates what is…as you did here. Have a great week.
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