The sun came up today, (as it is known to do)...and as usual it was beautiful...and the sun went down again, to make room for all the stars of the milky way...

Coffee is silken perfection, right temperature, sweetness, and taste...whoo hoo!!!

Right now, is perfect...if you just stop and enjoy the fact you are breathing, and if you take a minute...you may find the muscles in your face haven't atrophied that much, that you you cannot raise a smile.

GO on...give it a go!!!

What are your simple pleasures??

my children
hearing a song that reminds me of better times
rain on a hot day
first snow of the year

Please refer to "Wake-Up Sex." Giggle....

as a shriner, the faces of the kids we help and their parents when something good happens.
my morning coffee.
sitting by the river.music, any hind.
a childs smile at the circus.

When a an infant/toddler is in a swing
and their voice crescendos and decrescendos
with their swing height

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(grown ups do it too, when they aren't being groan ups)

THAT'S a simple pleasure...........
over 25 and playing Kick the Can or Hide and Go Seek

YES!!! Or jumping in the puddles, skurfing down the gutters on boogie boards with the kids when it's torrential summer rain...

a good climbing tree

Chasing butterflies knowing there is no competition, they beat me wings down...

Sitting in traffic, at roadworks, and looking out my window at the sky...

...with three sacred ibis, in perfect formation, snowy white underbelly and wings, elegant necks crowned by black heads, silhouhetted by a perfect powder blue winter sky, with high mare's tail clouds...

Aaaahhh...a simple pleasure!!!

Being Wrong........

Seeing someone that as much as we try not to judge.......we have a preconception of (Own judgement.....NOT pleasurable)

When this person does a kindness and proves you wrong and you say,
"gosh, I was wrong. I shouldn't do that."

Then you forgive yourself.

Watching visitors learn the finer art of surfing at surf school, and the first wave they catch, and do that wobbling all over the place thing when they stand....and the look of triumph when they get it.

accomplishment...........achieved because "accomplishment" was never the goal

The journey....at a toddler's pace...

My kids laughter
Them getting along..lol
My friends
CHOCOLATE and COFFEE

Hey Katers!!! Your pic is a simple pleasure...my face hurts from grinning..

holding hands with that special someone . looking up at the stars, listening to the birds

holding hands and stargazing.
Sharing a sunset or sunrise with your someone special

running indoor plumbing

much less a hot shower