I'm admiring these beautiful spruce trees in a peaceful place amid a sea of timothy grass as I write in my journal. Did you ever pull up a stalk of timothy grass and pop it in your mouth and chew on it for a while? If not, I'd highly recommend doing so; it's never too late. It doesn't give you a buzz, or anything like that. Chewing on timothy puts sort of a sweet taste in your mouth and makes you feel like you're a kid again and on top of the world!
I saw a small whitetail buck on the road up ahead of me on my walk here and after finding a place to rest up I'm just biding my time swatting deer flies and mosquitoes and picking off a few wood ticks, nothing out of the ordinary. Every summer it seems I ask my hubby when the deer flies will let up and he always says the same thing, "Not until later in August." UGH! I think the deer was looking for a deer fly escape himself.
Chickadees are singing all around me in the spruce trees near this peaceful and quiet journaling spot.
Ox-eye Daisies and Common Yarrow are blooming everywhere and most of the Indian Paintbrush (Orange Hawkweed) have started going to seed. A mourning dove keeps cooing in the distance, but I don't foresee any rain in the near future.
It's the start of a grand Wisconsin summer, the first week of July, so go grab some timothy grass, give it a chew, and forget all your troubles. It's working for me, at least for right now, and right now is all that matters!
My ramblings today fill up the last page of my journal, now full. I am certain, though, that I can find another one! I'll share with you the first two pages of this journal just for reflective purposes. I began writing in it shortly after my ovarian cancer surgery and was trying to pull myself together well before my blog posting adventures began... I think my thoughts below are good advice for anyone, not just myself. They're kind of the whole gist of the memoir I recently published and what keeps my sanity today.
"Random thoughts in no particular order: Attitude is everything. Although a positive attitude may not prolong your life it will improve the quality of life you do have left and make things easier for those around you..."
"Try to find at least one thing each day with a positive spin on it... no matter how simple that thing might be... the taste of food, blue sky, sight of a bird of any kind, a phone call or email from a friend, a call from a book publisher (NOT), the ability to go to the bathroom, a smile from a stranger, even simpler positive things not yet thought of. See them, feel them, appreciate them, no matter how small they are."
Wonderful! Yes, I will go out and chew on some Timothy grass! Love, the sentiments at the end, as they are always good reminders for all of us to use every day. Pic great with the Timothy and tick bottle! r Go young Buck!
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