Today is super busy and fairly stressful. I have a deadline tomorrow for an abstract of a proposed article that I’m going to try to upload in advance tonight to spare me the last-minute horrors of, say, the journal’s website crashing tomorrow beneath the weight of everyone else’s last-minute submissions or someone on campus needing something from me unexpectedly right during my final sprint when I need to concentrate on not making mistakes as I’m trying to beat the clock. On top of everything else this afternoon, I had to squeeze in a stop at the pharmacy and the grocery store on the way home. (Pesky “real life” distractions lol)

But I had a nice moment of joy there in the store today and thought I’d share. Nothing huge. Joy can arrive via such tiny, fleeting impressions sometimes that it’ll pass you right by if you’re not paying attention.

Today’s joy was one of those little “nothing” moments. I just really liked the saturated orange and green colors of the carrots and parsley together.

The produce shelves’ arrangement changes all the time, I assume so that shoppers don’t get too complacent and have to search harder for things that are no longer where they expect them to be. Maybe changing things up like that has been shown to increase sales?

Anyway, I think the placement of carrots and parsley together is new. And today the carrots were large and luscious, and the parsley bunches were vibrant and generously sized.

So, lucky me being there at exactly the right time!😀