Glowing in the Sun By Catherine Viel

[Manuel Tavares]

Glowing in the Sun
By Catherine Viel
https://rayviolet.blogspot.com/2022/10/glowing-in-sun.html

A distant siren whines
from the freeway. Sun shines!
What a Sunday, what peace!

Gosh, it’s easy to be happy when the sun is brilliant in the flawless blue sky, a cacophony of deliriously chirping birds creates surround-sound music as I sit on the bench out front, and nothing in particular is “wrong“ with life.

There’s also a leaf blower roaring next door, my coffee cup’s empty, and the bench feels hard and cold. But that didn’t dim the upwelling of sheer joy when a tiny, pale yellow bird latched onto a slender birch branch above my head and caught the light till it glowed gold in the sun.

I can only conclude that an earlier, before-I-start-the-day request to my divine team—“help me to be joyful today”—kicked in before the words even left my lips.
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