just a pebble

Another wonderful Simple Abundance "thought" - one of my favorites:

The first time you think you'd like to do something a little different from the way you've always done it - maybe bring creole shrimp stew to the potluck supper instead of your-delicious-but-predictable potato and peas casserole, you pick up a pebble.  The first time you actually do it differently - whether you're delighted or disappointed in the results - you throw the pebble into the pond.  The pebble sends out tiny, barely visible ripples of movement toward the center.  No one else notices.  But the woman who threw the pebble, or spent two hours in the kitchen cooking up simple pleasure does...if she is paying attention.

Throwing pebbles every day is my resolution for 2012.  I started early.  Today, I drove past a street, off of Monroe, that I probably have driven past a thousand times (quite literally) and I turned on it.  I've always wondered about it and now I've seen it....a beautiful street along the aboretum that I had never seen before today.

Heidi