I realize I haven't posted in a while but on my behalf I have started posts on some of my adventures. However this post is a "break" from the norm. I am "in love" with a new magazine! I first read about it in Artful Blogging. " Bella Grace - devoted to finding magic in the ordinary". I was hooked, I couldn't wait. I nearly drove the staff at Barnes and Noble crazy! Every week I would go in and request it (for 2 months)!
Sooo today I went in to get a book I ordered and picked up one of the Stampington & Company magazines. I had totally given up on the Bella Grace, but there in advertisements is "Bella Grace in your bookstores on August 1! Be still my heart, dare I ask! A staff person looks it up, yes "it" came in today. But where is it?? We finally find "it", small with sober shades of brown. Extremely unassuming, my hopes dropped. I've waited too long so buy it anyway.
This magazine was beyond words for me! Now I was only to page 8 and I was doing something I had never done before! I called the company! In 8 pages I was taken - they knew me - one quote summed up the philosophy of my retirement!
"It is a rich beginning of a new day - a bathed in light and glorious abundance new day. How it is going to unfold and how I decide to use it is wholly up to me. Whether I am going to make this day a perfect part of my summer story depends entirely on me. Because every summer has a story and now I am creating one..." Sylvia Stefanova
Sylvia-simplelife.blogspot.com (Better believe I am headed over there as soon as I finish this post.)
Is that not endearing?? It took my breath away and brought me to tears when I read it out loud to the person on the other end of the phone at the magazine company. Since then I am back to reading the magazine and savoring every word and expressive image. Beautifully done and represents my heart and soul, what more could I ask for in my "new" retired life.
So "Because Every Day is a Saturday" I will spend the rest of my Friday evening enjoying Bella Grace -Life's a Beautiful Adventure, drinking citrus green tea, and creating a "glorious abundance new day"!!!
