Describe a Simple Pleasure

[whaywardj]

Severe rainstorms promised yesterday are apparently arriving today.

There's a watercolor sky above me colored dozens of shades of gray and smeared by playful winds. Thunder peals in wide circles around, sometimes sounding like fighter jets soaring; other times, like heavy machinery in a busy shipyard heaving weight and steel. Small dust devils scatter over pavement like spilt marbles. Cement clad ground grows a pox of rain drop stains. The air is fragrant with a smell that is vaguely youthful.

Having always enjoyed dramatic weather, I sit in a rocking chair on a porch, watching it all, not knowing how many more rainstorms I'll witness before I die. (Who does?)

Think I'll watch this one a while longer and remember the lovers I've known.

[IndiReloaded]

I have so many of these. Well here's a few off the top of my head:

Giggling for no reason in bed at night.

Smelling my son's hair.

Warm chocolate chip cookies.

Cracking a new book I ordered for the first time.

I'll describe one more when I get a chance.

[whaywardj]

...Giggling for no reason in bed at night...

Oh?

[Yggdrasil]

Sitting on the porch holding hands with the one I love while watching the sunset without saying a word, and feeling connected with her in a way that cannot be described in language.

Those moments where a simple looking eachother in the eyes says more than a thousand words and expresses feelings of love and respect that are beyond language and for a moment, time ceases to exist.

The smile on her face when I look at my loved one with love and appreciation and the feeling in my heart when seeing that smile.

[Charlie Boy II]

Smelling my son's hair.

Creepy.

Sometimes if I get to work a bit early I have my coffee at the cafe in the city Court house and read the paper. You sit outside and the place is full of tatooed thugs sitting at tables and chatting to their lawyers. Their poor old mums sitting next to them, looking worried.

Suddenly, whatever's on your plate doesn't seem so bad anymore.

[Junket]

Vanilla milkshake before bed.

[Mish]

Picking up my guitar and laying down a tune. Suddenly nothing else is important.

[IndiReloaded]

Creepy.

Its not creepy you dummy, my son is still little. Go ask your mom for a hug, you need one. Besides, won't last another year, I think. Wait until you have kids; you'll see.

Anyway, here's another:

I love to watch the rising sun lift the mist off the mountains whilst drinking coffee on my deck. Its often chilly, so I will wrap myself in a blanket. We have some lovely birds that make their am call in the trees, I need to learn what they are called someday. But for now I am content to simply watch & listen as the world reveals its splendor each day.

[misombra]

i love to sit out on the porch on a summer night and drink corona with lime.

[Yggdrasil]

Watching thunderstorms and the northern lights.

[Lipp]

Sketching without any particular intent.

[ecojeanne]

eating a magnum ice-cream while reading a book in bed mmmm luv it

[lovesjoyajm]

Stretching luxuriously like a cat before bed.

[ecojeanne]

yea! loves i do adore that

[Doc Durian]

Alternating between a cold swimming pool, boiling sauna, and heavily salted bath every 5-10 minutes while swilling copious amounts of pure water.

Then a bath with about 100 ceylon tea bags and 100 green bags..


Exhilarating.