"I feel like I have a secret, like I've gotten ahead of the rest of the world for the day. By 8:30 this morning, the sidewalks downtown were filled with people just on their way to work and the very air held the feeling of the day just beginning, and while on some days we are just waking up at 8:30, today was different. We had gotten up hours earlier, helped someone out with a ride to the airport, taken the train into the city, gotten breakfast together and had a wonderful time to talk and reconnect over coffee. Not to mention actually getting Michael into work early for a change. And yet the difference in today is more than that. The meaningfulness of our early morning was not in getting a lot done, it was in the time we took to be still, to reflect, to be together and we finished our coffee date both feeling energized and sensing a glow around us. As I go into the day tuned in and focused on what is truly important in life, I feel like I have a secret, a secret that is dying to find its way into the hearts and minds of those who go about their days in a mindless routine."
{{Oh it feels good to be back here, able to write again! Somehow I thought having mono mostly entailed fatigue, I had no idea it starts out with fevers and a throat so swollen you can barely swallow. How thankful I am to be past that part and for having such an amazing husband who has taken such good care of me the past several weeks! I am still feeling somewhat weak if I do too much, though on the whole I'm doing tons better. Many thanks to everyone who called and wrote to check in on me!}}