Tiny Pockets of Happiness

“A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.”
― Walt Whitman

When you get caught up in the mundane stresses of life, it is refreshing to think of the tiny pockets of happiness that you are overlooking. In college, I remember a Psychology 101 class where we had to write a happiness list. It was one of my favorite assignments and I liked to continually add to it.

Amidst the busyness of this school year and my upcoming fall photoshoots (message if you want a session), there are days where I feel like I am simply going through the motions.

I was inspired by a recent CupofJo blog post where Joanna listed her simple pleasures of life. What are yours?

Here are mine ~

Simple Pleasures:

• The word tapioca
• my baby’s eyes squinting in sunlight
• clouds going to sleep
• Pakistani crows cawing
• any tropical breeze
• my grandmother’s voice
• skylights
• the days my children get hot lunch at school
• packages in the mail
• sprinkling turmeric in Maggie Ramen noodles that saturate in the spicy soup
• my mother’s aloo-gosht curry with meat and potatoes
• the sound of my baby crawling on the wooden floor with her hands slapping the ground pat, pat, pat
• the personalities of my three brothers
• a warm shawl
• bubbling laughter of my cousins
• when my father acts goofy with my daughters
• when my mother bathes my children and their cheeks shine
• lemon scented foaming kitchen soap
• nursing and rocking my baby to sleep, forward, back, forward, back
• hugging a warm towel from the dryer
• seeing my children cackle and greet my husband after a long day of work
• the chirpy sound the red cardinal makes at sunset and catching him feeding his mate
• photoblogging
• and lugging home a bag of fat crinkly books from the library!