Soaring With the Haaks: That was Yesterday. This is Today

Contentment

Learn to like what doesn't cost much.

Learn to like reading, conversation, music.

Learn to like plain food, plain service, plain cooking.

Learn to like fields, trees, brooks, hiking, rowing, climbing hills.

Learn to like people,

even though some of them may be different...

different from you.

Learn to like to work and enjoy the satisfaction of doing your job as well as it can be done.

Learn to like the songs of birds, the companionship of dogs.

Learn to like gardening, puttering around

the house and fixing things.

Learn to like the sunrise and sunset, the beating of the rain

on the roof and windows,

and the gentle fall of snow on a winter's day.

Learn to keep your wants simple and

refuse to be controlled by the likes and dislikes of others.

Lowell Bennion

Saturday, March 20, 2010

That was Yesterday. This is Today

Yesterday we went to the Zoo. It was a glorious sunny day and 2 friends, their children and I and my 2 youngest carpooled the 1 and half drive to the Tulsa Zoo. We only got to stay for about an hour due to the traffic and lines getting in and out of the zoo, but honestly, with 8 children ages 8 and under that was long enough. I took hats because I had not yet bought sunscreen, but they wouldn't keep them on.