Smiles in the rain

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Today’s post is really not that special. I just thought the colors were pretty and wanted to take a picture to remind myself to eat healthier. Like cucumbers and dill swimming in ranch. hahaha

Pretty food is healthy food…heard that somewhere.

And on that same note, I would like to remind myself that I like running in the rain. I was running in between stores getting things for my sickie hubby and daughter and it was pouring. But it was so refreshing! I loved it so much that I couldn’t hold back smiling. After random people started staring and smiling back I was also reminded the power of a smile. Unfortunately it’s not that common anymore.

A huge thing that really set the tone though, which happened before any of the smiling stuff, was me offering an old lady a drive home from the max station. She was bent over, wearing a fur coat, flimsy hat and no umbrella. She was walking uphill-slowly. Remember that it was pouring. I couldn’t ignore the screaming in my head about that woman and the act of kindness that I say I believe in but probably don’t show as much as I should. So I took a u turn, prayed I wouldn’t freak her out by offering her a ride to her house and smiled. She was so nice and told me she didn’t mind the rain! That she lived in northern Alaska for 20 yrs so this rain was nothing. 

It was amazing! What an attitude! I want to be like her when I’m older. That conversation changed my whole attitude for the day. And I wish I can go say thank you to her…but I know our exchange of smiles and my offer to drive her home touched her. Wish I had more experiences like this, but then again it’s really up to me. Risk, streeetch and risk some more. 🙂

Well, have a great day- I might take a run!

*The beautiful blue bowl is Polish pottery and was bought last month in Nowy Targ, Poland. Thank you Weronika and Chris!

Mothers day gift

So for Mother’s day we went out to a market and I picked up a couple things for myself, thanks Trav. 🙂

I love them! So pretty and I’m somehow bringing them to Poland with me…we’ll see how it goes.

Beautiful huh.

It’s just a beautiful huge mug, that I’ll use for flowers or soup. The other thing I got was an oil holder thingy.

Polish Pottery

There is a whole world out there that collects Polish Pottery. Poland is well known for their amazing techniques and even though I don’t pretend to be in that realm let alone an expert, I do have a couple pieces I’ve picked up.Some in Poland and some here. I’ll probably have a nice collection when we live there. 🙂

The first two boxes are hand carved by hand. So beautiful. I have yet to make anything in the pie dish. The last picture is of a tea cup with ‘Zakopane’ carved in it. That is the city where Travis lived for a year there. Beautiful winter land there. Maybe I’ll learn to snowboard or ski there…we’ll see.

Enjoy!

Red box

Treasure box

Tart dish

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Zakopane tea cup