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It's All Da Count!

Published Thursday, September 07, 2006 by lecram sinun | E-mail this post

The work week ends and the cusp of a weekend draws near. Time to count yet another into the inventory of riches in life. Posting early as I'll be out and about Arthopping this evening.

Da Count for me today is somewhat abstract as I have chosen to celebrate... opportunity. How often have I ignored or forgotten that it is a constant. Too often have I missed it due to the narrow focus of my selfish desire... choosing to believe instead that none existed. Yet it has and continues always to be there for the taking as one missed provides another.

Opportunities to learn. Opportunities to befriend. Opportunities to give. Opportunities for joy. Opportunities to love. Opportunities to create. Opportunities to thank. The list goes on and on. It is one of the few things that by taking... often provides the opening to give.

Yesterday I thought about all the opportunities that a single day holds and wondered about how many I squandered. Did I miss offering a compliment, some encouragement or a smile when I could have? Yet I also realize that there are some that were best missed... and that selecting our opportunities goes hand in hand with recognizing that they indeed do exist.

I have been fortunate by the ones I have taken and also learned from others I perhaps should have missed. Yet there is no denying that I have been and continue to be shaped by them all. I am glad that they continue to... I would not be here without them. So, I raise my glass and toast to life and the opportunities it richly affords us.

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Have a great one and may you all fall victim to wide smiles.

EDIT: IN DA COUNT TODAY so far as of 3:45 PM PST.
airplanejayne
lime
osbasso
cosima
phain
kfarmer
spitfire
katie
mg
DevilBlueDress
TequilaGirl
julie

EDIT: Thanks to all who did da count and those who dropped by... hope it put a smile on your face to start the weekend off as it did mine. And hey... we'll still take latecomers!

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