#27 Time to appreciate

Here is your SL* for today.

Bit of a different SL* newsletter today.

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I woke up this morning knowing it was going to be a beautiful day, so took a cup of coffee into the garden to wake up slowly and had planned to read a chapter or two of my book.

-- We live very close to what is usually one of the busiest roads leading into London and (like most people here) underneath a flight path into one of the busiest airports in the world (Heathrow). So the relative peace and quiet of recent weeks has been one of the true SL* for us.

This morning the sky was a beautiful deep shade of blue -- you know the kind of blue that you truly appreciate when you’re on holiday and have left daily life back home for a while.

There wasn’t a single cloud in sight, or so I thought…

After reading a couple of pages I glanced up and spotted this solitary little cloud above me, and I became so transfixed by it I wanted to share it with you all.

Here it is.

Isn’t it beautiful?

When I say I was transfixed by it, I mean I literally transfixed. I’m not really sure why, perhaps I expected it to disappear as quickly as it had appeared.

Yet a quarter of an hour later there it was, still hanging up there as if suspended by a network of invisible wires -- like a whispy Diplodocus in the hall of the Natural History Museum.

Then as if out of nowhere, I watched as a tiny little reminder that life is still going on fly right through it.

A minute later the cloud was gone.

All this made me think that if I hadn’t looked up from my book and taken the time to appreciate this little cloud, I never would have even known it was ever there.

Now I’m wondering if anyone else spotted it.

So whatever you end up doing today, I hope you can also take a little time to appreciate a SL* that is right in front of you.

(Or above you).

-- Oh, and if you’re a fan of clouds like me you really should have a look at the Cloud Appreciation Society.

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