Day 325: Colorado Air

(For Thursday July 17)

A couple of weeks ago a bestie was visiting Colorado. She moved away a few years ago. As we were walking and talking she took a deep breath and commented on how amazing the air was. How is was wonderful to take a deep breath of such crisp and fresh air. How it smelled good. I totally agree but didn't really give a second thought until tonight when I was sitting by an open window and the breeze blew in just right. My eyes were closed at the moment this happened so what my nose picked up confirmed what my friend had commented on a few weeks earlier. It was a delicious moment of breathing in deep fresh, crisp, pleasant Colorado air. And I realized breathing it in how grateful I was to be able to live in this wonderful air! I'm grateful that this air is something that refreshes and revitalizes instead of something that I breath because I have to in order to survive. This Colorado air provides me what I need to survive but it is also a wonderful perk to living here, the fresh mountain air does do this heart good.

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