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Well, hello there, my friends and welcome back.

My name is Stephanie Safarian and you're listening to episode 485 of sustainable minimalists. This is a listener supported show about intentional and eco-friendly minimalist living

On today's show we are discussing how to savor those little glimmers of positivity and of joy that just

seemed to pop up into our days but if we're not paying attention we tend to

miss them this is a lighter easier listening episode than Tuesdays. If you listen to Tuesdays episode, you know that was hot and heavy. This is easy listening today.

But before we get into glimmers and what science says about savoring the moment, I do have a quick Stephanie story for you today.

It's more of a story plus a realization.

So I live in the suburbs, I'll just preface by saying that, I've lived in the city before, but these days, for the last 10 years, we've lived in the suburbs, and I was out and about with my youngest daughter the other day.

There's a farm stand nearby and it has a lot of fields and they have one of their fields is for growing flowers and they have a cut your own flowers option so you pay $20 and you get to walk through the fields, take some pictures, take home a mason jar full of fresh cut wildflowers.

And it's a lovely thing. I've done it before. We've paid the $20, all the things. It's a lovely little 30 minute activity, let's say. It was a gorgeous sunny day as we were driving by. My daughter and I, we weren't in any particular rush to get anywhere. So I thought, let's just walk through the fields.

Let's just park, I don't need to bring home the flowers. I don't need to cut any flowers.

Let's just walk through the fields, have a little bit of a lazy, you know, 15 minutes and then go home. I don't need flowers at home. I already

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