A New Day

No day is like any other day. Isn't that interesting? And you never know what the next day will bring, and that's exciting.
--Alpha English
A woman said to me yesterday that she noticed she never got a used day; each day was new every morning.  It is easy to forget that this is a new day, and that this day will bring us something different -- if we are open to that.  We can get to be so content with our habits that we forget to be in awe.  Like Mary Oliver, the poet, tells us, in order to be fully alive:  we need to pay attention, be astonished, and tell others about it.  What is there about today that is astonishing to you?  We had a lovely lightening storm with booming thunder during the night.  That was astonishing.  This morning everything is cool and clean and fresh from the night's storm, and that is astonishing.  What is astonishing for you?