Simple doesn't mean easy.

Any who said SIMPLE was EASY had no idea what they were saying, had apparently never tried to live more simple.     I try with everything I am, but I am far from simple.  I am about as complex as the next person.  There is never one side to a story and there are always several sides of anyone exploring the world, their needs, and experiences that makes everyone more complex each day.   There is so much going on in the world.  Everywhere you look there is something or someone telling what you need next.  What is going to make your life perfect. What is going to make your day easier.  And exactly what your kids need, your husband, your marriage and even what is wrong with you if you don't want what they have.

Even Julia Childs knew when she suggested the simplicity of cooking more like the French, it was going to be harder for the typical American to grasp having to peel a bag of potatoes to make a simple bowl of potato soup.  Not everyone is willing to do that, but I am willing to try.

It is all about the effort you put into something at the first in order to accomplish, enjoy and LAVISH the simplicity of life.

Dogs know when to take a nap, when to chase a rabbit, and when to watch it hop across the yard.  Watching sitting and following the eye of a dog at rest, not asleep, but resting because this is not the perfect rabbit.  Allowing the rabbit to fatten on grass just a little more.   Maybe tomorrow... as her eyes roll back, she takes a deep breath, yyyyeeeesss maybe tomorrow.

If you have a dog take a lesson from your dog, Can't sit in someones lap.... curl up on the sofa... take a nap, enjoy your day, your time, what ever it is you need to feel special today.

Even animals know simplicity... We are the only animal that pushes simplicity out of our lives and RUSH into what ever event someone else has deemed necessary for us, our children, our marriage, our lives, even our religions.

Take time for yourself.  What ever it is you like. Take Five Minutes of YOUR time, go outside, listen to the wind blow, watch the trees sway, sit in the sun, or close your eyes and take deep breaths.  Take time for YOU.   Forget the world... the entire world, and enjoy who you are!  For those of you who never relax or only take care of others this may be a little harder to do, but try... it will get easier over time, it will feed a part of you, that has not been nurished for sometime.

If you travel you see how other cultures are at a slower pace than typical Americans.  You have control, you have the ability to sit and lavish yourself in what ever way is perfect for you.