Where Bloggers Live: Glimmers: Life’s Little Miracles
Welcome! “Where Bloggers Live” started out kind of like HGTV’s “Celebrities at Home,” but…with bloggers! We all like to peek behind the scenes and see inside people’s homes, interests, and lives, so every month this wonderful family of amazing women shares their work-spaces, homes, towns, and thoughts, with posts based on specific prompts. It’s been so interesting over the years to see the different ways each of us interpret the topics.
This month’s prompt is: Glimmers: Life’s Little Miracles
Glimmers are small, everyday moments that spark a little feeling of safety, connection, or joy…the opposite of triggers. The term was coined by clinical social worker Deb Dana. These tiny cues help regulate the nervous system, lower stress, and gently shift the body toward a calmer, more relaxed state.
Deb Dana developed The Basic Glimmer Practice, which “helps you learn to notice and name glimmer moments – to stop and feel the spark of joy a glimmer brings.”
The five basic steps are:
- See
- Stop
- Appreciate
- Remember
- Share
Long before we selected this as a topic for Where Bloggers Live, I had a note in my phone app titled, “Things That Make Me Happy.” And one day as I was browsing my 12,905 notes, I noticed it and realized…ahh, these are actually glimmers! So I’ll share them with you here, in no particular order…and maybe some will resonate with you.
A breeze blowing sheer white curtains
Breezes in general
Brewed iced tea with orange
Taking a picture I love
Not feeling pain
My daughter contacting me
Water: in it, near it, hearing it
A good night’s sleep
Spending time with people who make me genuinely laugh/smile
Holding/petting animals
A nice smelling room
Shadows dancing on the wall
Unexpected messages from people i like
Golden afternoon sunlight
Music
Sunsets
Warm air in the evening
Pretty flowers
Napping
Sitting on a bench in the shade
People watching
A clean room
Getting just slightly buzzed 😊
Mastering a new phrase/grammar in another language
Good hair days
Surprises
Snow
My Christmas tree
Brightly-hued autumn leaves
I’m so grateful to have so many little things that I really love, that make me happy. I’m grateful that such small, seemingly insignificant things can bring me such joy and brighten my days.
What are your glimmers?? I hope you have many -)
Please visit my friends’ blogs to see what their glimmers are:
Daenel at Living Outside the Stacks
Em at Dust and Doghair
Jodie at Jodie’s Touch of Style
Leslie Once Upon a Time Happily Ever After
Sally at Within a World of My Own
jodie filogomo
Please explain the good hair day? 😂😂
Its so elusive for me !!
Xoox jodie
bettyewp
Ha ha. Living most of my life on humid Long Island, I really appreciated the rare, cool, DRY days when my hair wouldn’t frizz or curl up.
EmDirr
Lovely, lovely, lovely. Lovely thoughts, expressed in lovely words and given visual wings with your lovely pictures…many of them depicting the literal meaning of glimmers. Your posts are always a multi sensory….well…glimmer!
bettyewp
Hearts and hugs to you 🙂
xoxo
Leslie Susan Clingan
So many perfect examples of glimmers and of course, your photos illustrate them so well. After seeing your photos, I am reminded of the feeling I get from making my bed, And napping in said bed. Love that you thought of snow. It is such a miracle the way it makes the world pure and clean and fresh for awhile. Snuggling with pets, flowers and autumn leaves…all very glimmeresque.
Hope you are enjoying your time ‘state-side’.
bettyewp
Oh yes, a fresh, neatly-made bed is a delight. Well, frankly, getting into ANY bed is a delight. Literally, Every Night, when I get into bed, I say outloud, Ahh, Bed is Good.
And it is. Good.
Daenel T.
I love your list. Y our daughter is beautiful. And, gosh, I’d never considered tea with orang slices, but yum.
bettyewp
My grandmother always served sweet home-brewed tea with orange slices and mint from her garden. That’s THE flavor of iced tea for me.
Sally in St Paul
The blowing breeze through the curtains, the light and shadows on a wall…that whole area of sensory experiences are glimmers for me too. Open windows with a breeze coming in while early morning light plays against the wall and gentle nature sounds coming in while I’m lying in bed in late spring/early summer – that is one of the greats!
bettyewp
I have so many “beeze blowing through sheer white curtains” memories. That’s a whole glimmer category to itself for me…