A heavenly morning

We have many ebooks and many of them have not been read.  I want to read and re-read the ones that are worthwhile.  I asked Lynn what she wanted me to re-read aloud and she said, "Eat, Pray, Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert. It was an excellent choice and we are half way through it.  The book is very well written and fun to re-read. It was also the inspiration for a movie starring Julia Roberts.

The book is the story of a type of pilgrimage by an American woman to Italy, where she eats to her delight, India, where she meditates and studies her recently divorced self and Indonesia, where she falls in love. In an Indian ashram, Gilbert concentrates on her life, her thoughts and her own personality.  She describes her reactions to her history and her thoughts.  She focuses on the miracle she actually is.  I read about that last night.

Today, we have snow.  When we moved here more that 50 years ago, I was nervous about facing the winter.  That winter was the coldest we have experienced here but of course, I didn't know that over the years, we would not have that level of cold again.  We here now are actually experiencing milder levels of winter cold and snowfall in the past few years.

Having been recently inspired by Gilbert's writing, I looked at our snow-covered trees and grounds and soaked in the quiet and the beauty we had here this morning.