PRETTY LITTLE THINGS

Today as I sat in my office trying to figure out how to handle work, an internship, school, church & keep some form of social life going I began to wonder if I truly ever appreciate the things around me. I'm always go go go - I never stop. A perfect example of this is my sister's acupuncturist, he took one look at me and told me I needed to slow down and breathe once in awhile. My question is, exactly how am I supposed to accomplish that? I have way too many things I have to do, but I WANT to do them! I like the chaos, which is most likely a deeper issue that I don't wish to ponder at the moment but seriously, I enjoy what I do...really I do.

On that note, my understanding on this is I need to see more around me. There are too many times when I just fly by things and never take them in. When I'm doing one thing while thinking of the next thing I need to get done. I know I'm not the only one that does this - I know there has to be tons of us that are guilty of that. So..that being said..I want to see the beauty in things, I want to slow down. A little bit. Ok not really slow down but maybe pause for a minute or two before rushing off again.

I tried to think of something simple, something that's in my everyday life that brings me peace and a sense of warmth or something like that. My first thought was God, since my faith is something that brings me peace everyday of my life, but I wanted to think of something on this world that made me feel that way as well..then I came to cinnamon - totally random I know but there's something about the smell of cinnamon that I love. It reminds me of my daddy, he would eat anything if it was cinnamon flavored. I think of Thanksgiving and Christmas, the smell of pies in the oven or the little bowl on the table full of cinnamon sticks. I love the way it looks, the warm brown color molded into swirled perfection.

So now I'm off to the store to buy things for pasta dinner with Jessie & Rachel - it should be a masterpiece with 3 Italian girls working on it.