To round out a beautiful sunshine filled day I decided to drag the laptop out to the back deck and sit facing the sunset.  I didn’t neglect to bring along my USB external drive loaded with good music and a few sticks of Shanthimalai Nag Champa either.  I wish you were here.  The sun is a beautifully glowing orb cradled in a few low lying clouds and the light the suffuses everything is sublime.  Everything is warm and peaceful colored and even the neighborhood dogs who bark in alert when air molecules bang together seem content to point their noses to the west quietly.

The cardinals that are building a nest in the hedge just off the deck steps are singing softly to each other and a random squirrel arcs through the limbs of the trees now and then.  It all combines to make me forget about living for awhile and concentrate on life.  What is the meaning of life anyway?  Debates have raged for thousands of years and everyone has an idea or opinion about the meaning of life and while they argue and ponder I fear they are missing the point entirely.

This is the meaning of life.  To have a glad and peaceful heart.  To know that there are people you love and who love you.  To appreciate the beauty and wonder of the world around you without analyzing it trying to find a point.  To be kind to others and to give freely when you can.  To let go of the urge to correct, educate or school others.  To take whatever comes and deal with as it happens and never let its ghost haunt you for long.  To be peaceful, content and happy.  To love and be loved.  I think it really is that simple.

As I sit here enjoying the splendor of an early spring sunset with Seals and Croft playing softly as I type, I know that I can remember this moment for a very long time to come and be glad and thankful for it because there is beauty and life all around me and I am happy.  I can step inside to the warm arms and warm smile of a woman that loves me for who I am.  Flaws and scars and all.  I can sit here and try in vain to whistle back to the cardinals or I can just be glad I am alive and be thankful for today and every day that has gone before.

I wish each and everyone of you reading this your own moments like these.  I hope that you find the time now and then to be glad that you are alive and to be thankful for what you have without worrying about the things you don’t.  Peace, Love and Happiness to you all my friends.