Quiet Contemplation with Coffee

What’s the one luxury you can’t live without?

I start my day in quiet contemplation sipping my coffee reflecting on gratitude. Yes gratitude for the many luxuries I have beginning with freedom. Many women in many countries do not have this freedom. I say a prayer for them. I say a prayer for the women in my country who lost the freedom of choice. But I won’t dwell on that. That’s a discussion for another time.

When sipping my coffee I am grateful for electricity for without it I would have to build a fire and coffee would take so much longer. But then again have I be one jaded by instant gratification.

It is hotter than Hades outside but it’s just the right temperature inside because of air conditioning. Some people do not have protection from the heat or from the cold and die because of overwhelming temperatures.

I have light to read by before the light of first dawn. And I have this iPhone to write this all down.

How could I not be grateful for all? But can I not live without them? I don’t want to live without them but I hope I could survive if they no longer exist.

Published by lisanordlund1

In 2015, I retired and my goal was to do as much traveling as I possibly could. I started the blog for our first month long trip to Panama in October 2015. My sister Linda and her husband Stan joined Bruce and I on our first trip and we decided together on the name the four amigos. Since then, we don’t always travel with them, sometimes just Bruce and I, sometimes other people, whoever wants to join us on our crazy journeys. The name stuck and I grew an affinity to it. So here we are. I invite you to join thefouramigos blog on our next destination.

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