OLW: Delight, That’s a Wrap

My journey with Delight this year did not follow my typical path. I pretty much abandoned the Ali Edward’s stuff about 6 months into the year. No shade to Ali and her team, I think it’s just gotten stale for me after so many years of similar content. Around the same time, I stopped doing monthly updates here on the blog. That’s totally on me although I think the lack of structure I gave myself by not doing Ali’s prompts was a pretty big factor with regards to this.

Thankfully, despite dropping the ball on documenting this year’s word in a way you all could see, it was actually a pretty great word for me. I can honestly say that I thought about this word pretty much every day . . . looking for moments of delight, noting when they appeared, and reminding myself that while delight may be fleeting, it often shows up when I need it most.

I thought about delight a lot during our home renovation project. It was a challenging time for me as I loath upheaval and disturbance and everything about our house was pretty chaotic for quite a while. I was able to find delight in the gratitude I felt for the work being done and the people doing it. In the small kindnesses of the clean up they did every day in an attempt to disrupt our lives as little as possible. In the effort Dale put in every single day to move things around, straighten things out, all in order to provide me with a place to relax and feel at home as much as was possible. Delight definitely showed up for me then, even when I had to dig deep for it.

I finished the year strong with 100 days of delight, documenting a moment of delight each day in my journal. Some were silly, like laughing with my library book club group. Some were meaningful, noting the morning sun shining through the changing leaves in our backyard. Some were simple, like finding bumblebees sleeping in my dahlias. And some were comforting, like reading by the fire with a cat in my lap. All spark a memory of a special moment of delight.

I’m grateful for this word, delight, as it helped me focus on the small moments that might otherwise go unnoticed, but that truly make up a year in the life.