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Our family got a delightful new camera recently. It’s so much fun that I’m actively looking for ways to use it.
I’ve started taking walks
around my neighborhood, deliberately seeking interesting scenes to photograph.
In my photo safaris I’ve discovered that there is a lot more beauty in my world than I had noticed before. Each time I find something good I have one of those “wow!” moments that lights up my soul.
This exercise reminds me of something I used to do as a child. Walking the same route to school everyday got boring, so I challenged myself to find ten new things I had never seen before. And you know what? I never failed to find ten new things. I usually found more than ten.
Sometimes nourishing ourselves has to do with 
taking time to notice what has already been provided for us.
My challenge for you today is for you to look for something beautiful. Maybe it would help to pretend you are looking for something to take a picture of. Then, tell us what you find.
Because I am a reader my first instinct in learning how to do something is to turn to books. That’s why I searched Amazon for books about how to nurture oneself.
Three titles that I found and purchased (used, of course—goodness you don’t think I’d pay full price for a book on how to take care of myself, do you?) were Simple Indulgence by Janet Eastman, 50 simple ways to pamper yourself by Stephanie Tourles and 2001 Ways to Pamper Yourself by Lorraine Bodger. I’m sure there are other titles out there but these are my starting point.
I’ve decided to use these books as my springboard. I’m going to pick items from them and try them out. Then I’ll let you know how it goes. Maybe you’ll want to try things out also. Or maybe you’ll come up with better ideas. If so, I hope you’ll share them.
I love to research, so I’ll post goodies that I find from other sources also. After all, isn’t practicing the things you love to do a way to take care of yourself? Doesn’t following your passions nourish your soul? Okay, if it doesn’t, I don’t want to hear about it.
Like so many other who saw the movie Julie and Julia, I am intrigued by the idea of trying to learn something new and to share the joys and perils of that process with an audience.
Unlike Julie, however, I have no interest in French cooking.
Instead, I share the plight of many women. After many years of raising children, caring for a house and husband and pursuing a career, I seem to have lost my ability to care for myself.
I am finally at a place in life when I can take a little time out for myself—but I’m not sure how to do that, if I ever even knew how.
So, this blog will be a chronicle of my attempts to nurture and nourish myself. I am making my journey public so that the many others who are like me, unpracticed in genuinely caring for oneself, can join with me in dialogue and adventure.
Perhaps together we can nourish ourselves in the ways we often seek to nourish others.
What do you think?
The Nourisher 