The pace of my days is generally slow and allows time to sit around pondering on things. But it isn't all day dreaming, since there is some discipline involved, since a peaceful life-at-the-beach routine can gradually lull one into lethargy both physical and mental, and “monkey mind” wandering make thoughts wasteful and unproductive. I try to guard against that to a certain degree. On many days I sit in one of my favorite aeries watching the wheels go round, thinking on this and that, and today it came to me after a while that I have gotten uncommon pleasure, large and small from a variety of sources in my new post-Japan setting.
Here are some things that please…
• The sight of a trash-car working its way down an already clean stretch of beach
• The large extended family now vacationing at the beach, people who glow with sunlight, happiness and family-ness, and who I amiably observe each day
• Flights of pelicans
• The friendliness of every employee at Publix supermarket
• A nearby public library, a very good library
• Orange Bank of Florida in Lake Mary and it world’s best VP
• Summer squash, a favorite vegetable I did without for many years
• Tamaki-san, a Japanese woman working at CVS Pharmacy
• Successful management of the book buying budget (The pen & ink buying budget needs some attention, however.)
• Being close to best friends
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