Simple Abundance

Hugging a tumbler of freshly buttered popping anxiety, I decided to have a doughnut. I turned right, walked inside the usual Mr Donut shop and stood in line. The lady ahead of me was pretty Miss Undecided. Weighing the merits of a BLT, croissants, chocolate rings and strawberry, her flurried pained look was adding ounces to my bursting bucket of uncertainty. It was just too much to bear!

I careened backwards, took a turn around, bolted out and jiggled towards the *"BookSale" outlet just across the shop.

"I need something...I need something...I need to write!"  A notebook, any kind, yes, that was what I needed.

"We don't have any," the one person manning the store regretfully said.

"Oh, well, never mind," I dejectedly heaved,  my eyes wandering the breath of wooden white shelve and my gaze landing on a stack of pink and yellow books upfront.

They all looked familiar. Reaching out, I took hold of one.

In an instant a wide grin seeded from within me. Simple Abundance, a book that costs 200 pesos short of a thousand was in my hands. I switched it over to its back and gasped, 125 pesos! Wow!

I couldn't believe my luck! The one book I had been so desiring, always put off  in favor of other more important things, was warm in my hands. And to say it was at a fraction of its original bookstore price is an understatement! Thumbing through its crisp pages, I marveled at the serendipity and  endearment of life's kindness.  

Simple Abundance has become more than a book. It has become a  catch phrase,  a message, an answer, hope and solid reassurance of  prism serenity - the year 2010 to come.

Grateful.