I'm in love with Georgia Heard's writing...

Georgia Heard tells us in Writing Toward Home to "Fall in Love at Least Three Times a Day."  She enumerates all the wonderful things in the world you could fall in love with including stars, birds, music, flowers, and....well, you get the idea.

So what are the things with which you fall in love?

Falling in Love Every Day

(inspired by Writing Toward Home by Georgia Heard )

I’m in love-

With warm bubble baths on a frosty day,

with hot chocolate in an oversized mug,

I’m in love with cuddling with my little dog,

in my favorite reading chair,

a book on my lap where I can lose myself

for just a little while under my grandmother’s

scrap quilt I escape to faraway places. 

I’m in love with a colorful jigsaw

puzzle spread across my dining room table

and a good movie flickering across my tv screen,

savory soup wafting throughout the house.

I’m in love –

With Spring’s pink buds on the dogwood trees,

the baby birds chirping in the nests of our

Pink crape myrtles.

With soft rains that bathe the earth and

leave sparkling puddles for stomping

and mud for squishing between my toes.

I’m in love with daffodils and tulips and the

Cool pastels that tease us with the

anticipation of summer’s bold colors.

I’m in love –

With summer’s dragonfly days

where basil breezes

lift my curtains

and sunshine spills across

the freshly picked tomatoes

lining my window sill. 

With firefly nights where children

Run through the cool rubbery grass

and play hide and seek while their

Parents sit on their porches with

Tall glasses of iced tea.

I’m in love -

With the cooling breezes

Of golden Autumn days and the invasion

of pumpkins and witches that fill the

spaces of the store shelves and windows

with toothless smiles and the promise of harmless fun.

I’m in love spicy scents that permeate

the bakery section of the grocery store

and the shiny red apples

that fill the bowl on my kitchen counter top.

I’m in love -

With the words that fill my notebook pages

Throughout the year, the careful drawings

That fill my sketchbooks and the watercolors

That splash across their pages.

I’m in love with books that line my shelves

And peek out from under my bed.

I’m in love with learning,

with the challenge of technology,
the ease of friendships, old and new,

I’m in love with interesting conversations

and friendly debates. 

I’m in love with my family,  my colleagues,

And the students I taught…

With memories of long ago

And plans for the future.