Tag: Joy

Posted in Five Friday Happy Bringers

Five Friday Happy Bringers 8/23/24

Posted on by Neal Saye

My weekly gratitude journal, of sorts.

  1. Robert and I had a lovely hour perusing a new exhibit, “A Measure of Time,” at our local Savannah Jepson Center for the Arts.

Gloriously colorful, geometric shapes everywhere!

HR trying (unsuccessfully) to blend in.

2. The ongoing belief that our bodies know how to be well and are always trying to move toward wellness.

3. Colorful carrots!

I made a delicious new dish, Maple Roasted Rainbow Carrots with Fennel Seeds, with some of them.

4. Our “Travel Buddies.” Have I told you about them? Three silly little stuffed animals HR and I have given each other over the years. But they travel with us EVERYWHERE we go.

I’ll do a blog post about some of their adventures soon.

5. Friday!

Joyful weekend ahead for you!

Posted in Encouragement

The Importance of Jumping

Posted on by Neal Saye

I can’t remember the last time I actually jumped.

Can you? 

And at 72, why would I jump?

Maybe a teeny, tiny “jump” when HR sneaks up behind and tickles me. But that hardly qualifies as a legitimate jump, does it?

Grandson Gabriel participated in a basketball tournament up in Atlanta this weekend.

He’s a great jumper.

G is the middle kid.

Perhaps I could learn a lesson or two from G.

I set forth an intention to look for ways to jump this coming week.

Join me?

Posted in My Saturday Evening Post

My Saturday Evening Post: 4/6/24 “The Geometry of the Universe (or at Least My Hall)”

Posted on by Neal Saye

My very favorite subject in high school was GEOMETRY.

Unlike calculus, trigonometry, and even algebra, geometry just made plain sense to me.

I mean, everything seems to have a shape. Even if it’s shapeless, isn’t that still sort of a category of a shape?

I also like the way the word “geometry” sounds and even feels coming out of my mouth. Try saying it.

“gee-ah-muh-tree”

Now try saying it a little slower.

“geeee-ahhhh-muuuh-treee”

It’s like getting a teensy massage of the mouth and lips. (Stop staring at me like that. It is!)

And it has such a rhythmic flow.

So yes, I love geometry. The word and the subject.

And apparently, so does my iPhone’s camera. For as I was walking out our front door the other day, minding my own business, my phone looked down and somehow without my assistance snapped a quick photo of our hallway floor, etc.,etc., including my left shoe.

When I discovered the unintentional (at least by me) photo, I have to say that I was a bit charmed with my phone’s artistic expertise and perspective.

Just look at all the geometry!

Circles and squares and ovals. Rectangles and triangles. Lines and points.

If I squint, I think I can even make out a few symbols from sacred geometry.

So even though I have not discovered what the geometry of the universe really is, I do have a better “footing” for my hallway’s geometry.