Fresh, green leaves

Hello, my friends!

I do hope that this post finds you healthy and happy.  My life has been going spectacularly well lately and I have so much that I want to share with you all, in due time.  Daddy and I are doing great and life is good in our neck of the woods.  We had a very emotional, healing conversation last night and I find myself feeling quite drained today from the intensity of it all.  It was one of those really deep, honest conversations that makes you feel like your soul is intertwined with your spouse’s.  And after, to reinforce his place as head of our household, he gave me a short but effective spanking with the acrylic paddle…the large one, that spanks both cheeks at the same time.  It was 12 of the best for this girl, bent over the side of our bed….yikes that hurt!  He seemed quite pleased with himself after 😊. 

Not that I don’t love talking about spanking (obviously, I do!)….but, you are probably wondering about the title of this post. Currently, I am reading “The Book of Joy”, written by Douglas Abrams on his time spent with the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.  I have felt great joy in my heart lately and wish to spread that joy to others.  This is a quote that I read recently about joy, not from the book, but one that really touched me: 

“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.”
― Rumi

Let those fresh, green leaves grow in your life, my friends.  Be happy.

XOXO,

nora

And, a little song to make you, smile…..