Wake Up and See Pretty
I was chatting with my brother Tim yesterday. Tim is the youngest of the four of us, second from the left in this photo taken in 1965. I'm third from the left, grinning quite broadly for the camera.
Tim is now a grown-up banker living in Manhattan, and while we no longer play trucks together or wear silly outfits as demonstrated above, we do chat on the phone quite a bit.
In one recent conversation Tim was telling me about a friend of his who planted hundreds of daisies in the woods outside her bedroom window. She wanted to "wake up and see pretty." I get that. Don't you find that when your eyes can rest upon something of beauty you feel more inspired, calmer, and just plain more joyful?
What might you do so that you can "wake up and see pretty?" What is "pretty" to you?
I've added three huge bulletin boards to a long wall in my office so that I can post pictures, images, material, paper, shells, whatever inspires my palette of pretty. My daughter Whitney created one board using images of the beach that I've cut out of magazines over the years. Sometimes I'll just swivel my chair around so I can gaze upon these beautiful images...lodged onto sea glass green rice paper...pinned onto a white framed board. Suddenly I'm "sittin' pretty" and my entire mood changes.
Here's to your images of pretty -- be they real or cut outs.









