Day 352: A day well spent

I took the day off today to spend with my oldest daughter who came down from the S.F. Bay area for Easter. After spending most of the morning talking with her we decided to visit the L.A. County Arboretum. My younger daughter met us at there. It is a beautiful time of year to go for a walk in a garden. This is the time of year wisteria is in bloom. Wisteria comes in many different colors including lavendar, pink and white. They have a great lavendar wisteria vine at the Arboretum. We are lucky enough to have our neighbor's wisteria vine growing along through the trees in our backyard. No matter how despondent I get about all of the repairs I need to make to my house, I can always look in the backyard and feel pretty good about where I live. Connecting with the environment is essential.

I don't know how to express this in more sophisticated terms. I intutively know this is true. I just feel it. I ran across a blog on the Huffington Post by Ervin Laszlo www.hufingtonpost.com/ervin-laszlo/quantum-consciouness-our_b_524054.html on quantum-counsciousness that alludes to being atuned to the greater world around us and to each other. I have not had the time or perhaps the capacity to think this out intellectually but I sense that it is true and we have to be connected in order to achieve a sense of well-being.