affirmation

so these thoughts have been marinating in the pondering pool that is my brain for a little while now, swimming around until they make their debut in this very blog. there are a lot of things in this life that i live that just make me smile. mind you, they are little things, things that kinda sneek up on me as i walk through each day usually more prepared to climb a mountain of difficult tasks than to randomly start giggling, but that is what makes these little things beautiful.

out of laziness or ease or simplicity, when people greet one another here, the greetings of "good morning" "good evening" "good day" tend to get shortened to just "morning" "evening" "day", which i honestly just love. i relize this happens in english as well, but something about speaking a foreign language day in and day out is that you notice new contours of communication that the monotony of native tounge just doesn't include.

this greeting, as of late, reminds me less of a greeting and more of an affirmation. as if, as two strangers pass one another on the street, we affirm to one another things that are quite simply just true. smile, "morning", smile "morning". its as if we anchor ourselves in this communal space and time through the affirmation of something simple and concrete. the funny thing is, it feels great. this friendly exchange of affirmations somehow grounds us in the simple, in the present, and for that small window of time, i am transported out of my musings about the past and plans for the future, and am brought to the very beautiful present.

this musing is espeically poignant to me at easter time, as the greeing: "he is risen!" and the affirmation "he is risen indeed!" is, in a much more earth shattering and life-changing way, exactly such an affirmation. this greeting, this truth, grounds us in our being, our identity, and the reality of love that we so often look past in our every day lives. and as spring unfolds in vivid pinks and greens, i am so happy for the simple affirmations of life that ground me in the present and in reality. ~love~