This challenge is simple: step back for a few minutes each week to find a lovely thing, a precious moment, anything you find lovely. Then post about it. You can just post a picture or you can go into detail and tell it as a reflection, story or poem.

It could be anything:

a smile…a rainbow…a flower…a kind act…a tasty treat

What was lovely in your life this week?

Lovely posts from last week

• Underdown
• Fake Flamenco
• Erin’s Big World
• Blog of Hammad Rais
• A day in the life
• Now at home
• One million photographs
• Philosophy through photography

My lovely for this week

I’m just finishing up a trip to New England. The impetus for the trip was my niece, who is a senior this year rowing in the Head of the Charles Regatta (in Boston). But I also took side trips to Portland Maine and Cape Cod.

The first day I was in Portland I felt like I got the whole fall experience, from drippy and gray to sunny and spectacular.

Join in!

I will post once a week, Sunday at noon in Seattle (8pm GMT) is my goal, and put a list of posts from the previous week in it. Basically using the same method I do with the Pull up a Seat Challenge. Detailed instructions are on the page: Whatsoever is lovely blog challenge.

Background

We live in a world that seems to value drama, anger, fear and violence. Being mean often passes for being smart. These are the things that “go viral”, magnified in the media. Sometimes, the things that really make life worth living are small and simple. They don’t make for good TikTok. This is a chance to share that type of moment from our lives.