Good morning :-)
I just had to post a good morning message. It's now 7:25 and I got out of bed at 6:45 to see *snow*. Not too much to make it hard going, but just enough mixed in with a light rain to be pretty and to fall outside my window. Yesterday I went for the first long walk in over a month, and picked up some beautiful fall leaves and pressed them between two sheets of waxed paper. I had to do this before going to bed last night, as they were drying out quickly. It is just a concrete series of happenings to remind me to truly enjoy each of the wonders of nature that Hashem has blessed us with. The fact that I was able to walk yesterday, to see the leaves, to bend down and pick them up, to hold them all the way home, to put them down, to rest and then daven and then make dinner. To have a wonderful family and friends to share my leaves with in notes, and to be able to do the complex physical, mental, and emotional tasks involved in these simple acts - from one who has had times when I couldn't do these things- makes me truly grateful to Hashem for the abilities I have and also, especially, for the family and friends with whom I can share my happiness. I hope you all have a wonderful day.