Adding "Awesome" to Your Life

This book has recently made an appearance on my radar of good things. It first popped up when my daughter was searching for a gift for a friend who was graduating from high school. She wanted to remind her friend of all the good things in life that pass us by often unnoticed or unappreciated for their contribution. The author of The Book of Awesome does just this.
Leafing through the pages, there are things such as bakery air to be savored. But there is the more humorous but still to be appreciated, like acknowledging the great contribution of the human colon. Page after page, the book is a reminder of all the things life blesses us with everyday.

And then just yesterday, having a bad MS day sitting on the couch, TV on, laptop running, trying to be productive...I am suddenly greeted again with Awesome. It was a commercial for Maxwell House coffee with the author Neil Pasricha. He spoke about how he never considered himself to be an optimist. Though his book is about embracing life's little moments and subtleties, he said he was not one for ignoring the bad moments in life. The bad moments need to be sat with and digested he says, but the good little things need to be noticed and appreciated too. I couldn't agree more.