Loving, Living, Connecting, Happiness

Ayden and Me in San Diego '06

What motivates you? If I had to answer that  question, without a doubt my answer would be happiness! It’s what I strive for on a daily basis. Happiness. I just like saying it, it’s like speaking it into action. Every day when I wake up I think, what will make me happy today? It sounds like a selfish thing, but really it’s not. Happiness to me is LOVE. Not just being loved but giving love, loving life and nature and everything it has to offer. I appreciate the small things in life. 

Brett & Zayne Durango CO 

A Day I Cherish

 The small joys like my morning coffee, oh my gosh how I love my morning coffee. I don’t love it only for its purpose, which is to wake me out of the foggy haze surrounding me each morning. I love the deep smell, the smooth bold taste, the warm feel of it as I take that first sip and it starts its journey through each part of my body. Yes my morning coffee alone is an experience for me, one that I enjoy thoroughly. Sometimes I just want to take these moments of happiness and appreciation and bottle them so that maybe, on a day when my coffee doesn’t taste as great, I can open that bottle and remember. Remind myself that this is life! Each and every thing that we do each day is a part of life.

Family, Last Summer '11... Connecting at its finest

Waking, eating, drinking, loving, dancing, running, breathing, brushing our teeth, washing our hair, these are the things that make up our lives. We’re always searching for more, wanting more, asking for more, but what if this is all there is? Would that be so bad really? Maybe there would be nothing wrong with just simply “living” if we did just that, lived every single moment. Is it possible to really appreciate the small things? To actually feel the warm sun kissing our skin as we walk into the grocery store, and then enjoying the breeze that cools that kiss? I want to. I want to soak in as much of this life as I possibly can. I want to meet new people, and go to places I never thought I would even want to go. I want to build relationships with these beautiful people in my life, I want to hear and live their stories, to feel what they feel and to connect with them on every possible level. This to me is happiness; living, loving, breathing, giving, dancing and laughing.

My niece Dylan dancing to her hearts content. 

All of these things connect me to my life and the life around me, and isn’t this what we all crave the most? That connection so that we know we are not alone? I know it’s true for me. 

Loving=Living=Connecting=Happiness