How might I savor this day?

I savor what I pay attention to. So the how of it is by being a better observer. I am way better than I used to be. I used to project my desired life onto the actual day like an image projected onto a wall…and behaved as if the projection was actual life. Now I tend to do that way less.

I have a house guest who is looking for a place here. We have spent a few afternoons driving around to open houses. We are looking at much more expensive places than what I have. It’s been interesting for me as I have reacted the opposite of what I would expect. Instead of envy, I come home and as we enter my place, and as I look out at it in the growing light writing this, I so love the place more. I have seen nowhere I would rather live. In a sense it has allowed me to savor it in the way I think the question implies. I have a place, and a time to live. Here and now. I am enough. I have a role, a job if you will. All of which, not that long ago, I not only didn’t have any deep awareness of, but in fact rejected out-of-hand by preferring my fantasy world in my head. I have said that I have finally found my nest, when, in actuality, I have simply come into myself.

From there, grounded in that place, I can really ‘see’. And taking it all in, inclusively, I am open to the ability to savor all of it.