friday : goodly things

Don't you love that goodliness comes in so many different shapes and sizes?


Like;
being awakened in the morning by a chickadee because you slept with your window open.

and not turning your furnace on for two days.

...Things like your nine-year-old using (correctly) the word 'anthropomorphic'.
And your five-year-old 'odious'.

the first violets

Something like seeing the pantry and refrigerator looking bare (and clean)... not in a sad sort of way, but knowing that you've utilized your larder well, and everything was used up in a timely and healthy manner.
And then, of course, there's the goodliness of stocking it up again!

There's the kind that feels like even though it's a cloudy day in earliest Spring... you're still surprisingly warm enough.

snowdrop - the first one i've ever met!

There's "Look what I made!" when they've come up with something entirely new all by themselves.

And silly string.


There's impromptu walks to the neighborhood park.

fishing.

Huck Finn style.

And springly surpises while venturing.

with Maddie.

spotting our world's first dandelion.

climb.

There are so, so very many wonderful and brave things in the world.

I look to them all,
and and am so grateful that they show themselves to me.