Maggie's Day Day 339 of Discovering Love in Something that Was Bigger than I Was

The sun came up today so I played all day on this magnificently powerful Friday. Now, the sun has set so I shall go to bed. It was a beautiful day to be alive and part of something that was bigger than I was.

Sweet Dreams to you and all those who experienced this day’s magnificence! Maggie

How did you discover love today?

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Maggie's Day 338 of Discovering Love in a Dinner for Two at Vincenzo’s

Dinner was at Vincenzo’s this evening. My friend Jim picked me up before treating me to a beautiful night of absolute splendor.

I dressed in red suede and silk, adorned in pearls. Jim wore green and navy blue. Colors that always make his eyes dance. Collectively we in no way, shape or form resembled Christmas even though our color scheme reeked of holiday cheer. Maybe it was because we both chose to leave the tinsel at home.

I can claim though that Jim decorates my life with his love. He is the best friend any person could ever ask to share their life. I got lucky. He’s my neighbor.

Through a heated and passionate community dilemma Jim and I came to know each other years ago. Each of us recognizing the strengths the other possessed and the gifts simply couldn’t go unnoticed.

Maggie's Day 337 of Discovering Love in Taking the Time to Listen

It’s late. I haven’t been to bed yet.

No matter what time I go to bed I have to be at school at seven o’clock in the morning. It’s going to be a short night and tomorrow is going to be a long day. Hopefully, I can get a nap.

It would be nice if I had a friend to call so that I could have someone to snuggle up with if I do indeed get the opportunity to take a nap sometime in the next twelve to sixteen hours. Most likely I will not have the opportunity to nap so I will not need to call a friend. Because if that were the case I would be a longtime finding someone with whom I wanted to call.

So, I’m going to let he day unfold as it will.

In the meantime I would love to share with you that I discovered love today in taking the time to hear what someone else needed to say.

It had been a really bad no good rotten day for one of my classmates. More than anything else all they needed to do was to share. So I listened. I felt compassion. Then I listened some more.

Maggie's Day 336 of Discovering Love in Putting Myself on Display

A storm ripped through town today but didn’t quite wreck havoc where I was. Sirens blared. Rain pounded. When the sun came out I thought I better head downtown to The Green Building to check on my sculpture that has been joyfully sitting in the parking lot.

The sculpture is a self-portrait that moves around on a whim just as I do. It resembles me in a lot of other ways as well.

As I pulled into the lot my poor little sculpture was broken most likely from the beating it sustained by the hard wind pounding it against the asphalt. Limp and wet soaking in saw dust that looked more like manure than fine shreds of wood I knew the exhibition time had come to an end.

Maggie's Day 335 of Discovering Love While Playing in the Darkness

I paid my electricity bill last month. This month’s bill isn’t due for another nine days. So when the electricity went out this evening I was pretty darn sure it wasn’t as a result of anything I did or didn’t do.

Sure enough the lights continued in some type of pattern going on and off for a period of almost two hours. I kept on working on my drawing.

With my brand new Craftsmen lithium battery flashlight that I bought myself for Christmas I hunkered down in the dark and kept focused on the area that my flashlight illuminated. The oversized paper on my easel was just the right size for the flashlight’s blinding beam.

Diligently I worked on the banister, the walls and the baseboards.

Fortunately the model I had posing for me had finished up prior to the lights going out. When we said ‘Good night’ on the front porch I suggested he park his vehicle perpendicular in the street and beam his brights right into my entry hall. That would have taken care of me for a while.

Maggie's Day 334 of Discovering Love in Honoring My Hero

This was not one of my better days. There have been far worse though, much worse. Somewhere in the dark out of a deep sleep I had to make a mad dash to the restroom last night. Fortunately my sink was close enough to my bed that all that I hurled remained within the basin. I was thankful.

After cleaning myself up and the sink as best I could I crawled back into bed, pulled the covers tight around my chin before falling back into a sleep that wasn’t very restful. No wonder I’m so exhausted.

I think I ate something yesterday that just didn’t agree with me and it’s still not. But I’m going to be okay. Now I know why I didn’t feel so well when I was posting my discovery of love yesterday.