Word for the Day - 2020

Perfume

   Pictured from my garden is daphne, with a fragrance 

like perfume that I can smell from a distance.

 

Now I have never liked perfume

and I hate walking into big stores with the perfume counters at the entrance.

In reading Simple Abundance (again) by Sarah Ban Breathnach

this year each day I am finding something to think on.

Yesterday she talked about perfume.

No, not the perfume you might splash on to smell good,

but the perfume you exude such as the perfume of success

or the perfume of sadness.

There are many scents we send out depending on 

how we are inside.

She also talked about "borrowing the scent of...."

Sometimes we don't feel much like happiness or success,

but we must take a mental evaluation and somewhere find 

it in us and borrow it by bringing it forward.

What scent are you sending out today?

Is it one of being scared and sad?

 That is probably me right now with this virus running rapid.

That is when I have to step out my door and notice what I notice.

I look at the color of the sky, the clouds, the spring blossoms,

the grass going crazy in my yard.

I can see my neighbors from a distance spending time with family

in their yards and talking over fences with their neighbors.

These are the fragrances, the perfumes, of kindness and joy.

Take care, dear friends!

Let's do our best each and every day to send out the fragrance, the perfume, 

whether it is online, over the phone, or across a fence today.