Unexpected wonders and a need for coffee

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.

 Cassandra Clare

Hey, Lovelies.

Today I have only this.

A favourite poem.

Some lovely things I found on my morning walk.

And soon, good coffee, a chapter of one of my Christmas books, and a day of planning.

May you find some wonder in your world too today.

Love, sandy toes, and windblown hair, Nicole xx

My morning in pictures

Wandering seagull tracks on the sand

A favourite poem

Write it on your heart
 that every day is the best day in the year.
 He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day
 who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.
 
Finish every day and be done with it.
 You have done what you could.
 Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in.
 Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day;
 begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit
 to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
 
This new day is too dear,
 with its hopes and invitations,
 to waste a moment on the yesterdays.
~ Ralph Waldo Emmerson

A mossy tree trunk with frangipani flower adornment

Christmas present from my dogs – very excellent book (pictured with a fave mug of good homemade coffee)

Note from my dogs attached to said Christmas book…

My beach this morning

Hilarious plastic attack lizard found in situ on the stone steps