This book is a gesture of Love and Gratitude to the exquisite world in which we live.
It is a Celebration of the extraordinariness of the ordinary, and the ordinariness of the extraordinary, present for us everywhere and all the time here on Earth.
These pages are taken from my journals. Journal writing is, by definition, a record of the ordinary, the daily, moments of one’s own small life. The pieces in this collection were not written for publication. Some of them are extracts from letters. I ask you therefore, dear reader, to make allowances for the places where they are very personal and subjective. They were written because the world, whether viewed from the mountaintops or one’s own city window, is so very beautiful, and Beauty excites language. And because a friend kept me supplied with her lovely handmade blank books, journalling became inevitable.
But words grow restless in a closed book. They long to be shared, for that is the work they are born to. I offer these observations of the ordinary and the extraordinary to you in the knowledge that your heart too resonates to the Beauty and Mystery of our world.