It’s the little things that make a life. A soft pillow. Waking to bird song. The first sip of steaming coffee or fragrant tea. A bite of crisp toast. A taste of ripe peach. A warm hug. Stepping outside to greet the trees. Putting on your favorite shirt. Breathing. Moving your body. Imagining what the day may hold and getting on with it.
Sure, we might like to take big strides and have breakthroughs every day, but life isn’t usually like that. It’s made up of showing up every day, and putting your heart into something you care about enough to keep going even when it seems impossible.
This Almanac is full of simple pleasures, spiked with the occasional unexpected wonder—like the new feature about stalking ways to live affordably (!), or the Fall Equinox celebration. That’s what day-to-day community is like. No big revelations. Just enlivening conversations, farm-grown food, the laughter of children, sharing our gifts, working hard, solving problems, asking for help, and glorying in a thunderstorm ending in rainbows—together.
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