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Nourishment

Thank you to Stacey, Betsy, Dana, Tara, Beth, Anna, Kathleen & Deb for this amazing platform to write and share writing! What a wonderful community you've created! I'm honored to be part of it. Join us at Two Writing Teachers .  Living a writerly life means noticing the small things, the things others would miss, and writing about them. I am a creature of habit. Every morning I wake up and eat a bowl of cheerios with milk. Satisfying. Eating my breakfast out of my favorite bowl makes it sweeter.    What is it about a specific bowl? The yellow color makes me smile. The bowl is a perfect shape. It holds just the right amount of cereal. It's sturdy and it does it's job well. It fits. Just the right size...not too big, not too small, like Goldilocks. My perfect bowl. This reminded me of a book I read twenty years ago... Everyday Sacred by Sue Bender. My memory of this book reminds me to find the miraculous in the ordinary. I remember that the bowl repres...