The coffee pot chuffs and chuckles as it finishes brewing those energizing cups of Folgers. I push my mug under the spout and relish the aroma. Hot, black and satisfying, it marks the start of a brand new day. I carry my warm mug back to the computer, set it on the desk, and think about the hours before me. Things to do, places to go, a footprint to leave behind at sunset.
Nemo lies on the floor, resigned to the fact that I won’t leave my chair until the typing is finished. Since I won’t leave, he sighs and accepts his role as guardian against the mechanical thing that I seem to be so attached to.
The water fountain in the container garden gurgles and splashes, heedless of the fact that autumn will soon be drawing to a close and making way for another, fiercer season. A light shines in my neighbor’s house across the street. Early risers, they have many important things to do before nightfall.
I’m grateful for the small things, the simple things, the familiar parts of each new day. As the year closes a chapter called October and prepares to begin a brand new installment, I hope and pray for peace, love, and joy for those I know and love and for others I don’t know. I am convinced that peace begins on the inside, in the hearts and minds of men and women. Without those two things, peace and love, the world would be a mighty barren, hostile place, but with them, we can go joyfully into the new day and look forward to a new month, tucking October away again until next year.
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