- Getting back on course
- Holding a swallow in my hands (it had hit the window) until it recovered and flew away
- Baltimore Orioles enjoying the grape jelly I put out for them
- House wrens chattering up a storm
- Great Blue Herons
- Breathing
- Having no particular place to go
- Quiet time
- Taking stock
- Sleep
Monthly Archives: May 2014
1. God
2. Reconnecting and receiving help from some old friends
3. Oliver bringing over his power washer to help us clean
4. Iced tea with mint from our garden
5. Breakfast with David, talking about Memorial Day, parents and children and rock and roll
6. Listening to Cassie’s presentation, offering feedback, outside at our new table, sitting on new chairs
7. Shea butter (as an unguent, not to eat)
8. Lindsey’s love
9. Meghan’s pictures
10. Christa on remembering
11. Katrina writes about doing what you love and what is needful, through a parent’s eyes
Grateful for
Life, and everything in it.
Gone, but not forgotten!
With deep gratitude to all Veterans and in grateful remembrance of family and friends who have passed:
Mildred Bailey (Mom)
Suzanne Pierce
Jim Bailey (brother)
Peggy Peterhansen
Art Peterhansen
Ken Hiney (brother-in-law
Barbara Hiney (sister)
Phil Barnes
Ruth Barnes
Sherman Bailey (Dad)
Freedom
We are grateful to our military men and women who are serving now and who have served in days gone by.
We have family and friends of all branches of the military representing service in Iraq … Korea … Vietnam … WWII .
Thank you for serving!
Vital Signs
I an grateful for my life
and all the challenges
that have spawned gray hair,
every line on my face
proof that I am living–
not always full-out,
sometimes hesitant–
but the evidence is there
that I show up every day
to etch my signature in time
and add my voice
to Earth’s infinitely beautiful song.
Countdown
- Warm day
- Getting through
- Fresh rhubarb from the farmer’s market
- And tomato plants, the first time I’ve tried to grow them (fingers crossed)
- Veganizing my paternal grandma’s pie crust recipe (for the rhubarb) and it turned out great
- Our neighbors
- Rest
- Six weeks left
- Beauty
- This
Home Sweet Home
- Neighbors helping neighbors
- Phil, our “Paul Revere” neighbor
- The Montana homing pigeon who flew 15 mi. to a child’s school…her flock is her people family…she was homing not to a place but to a person.
- My beautiful granddaughter who calls often and is always there :)
- Spatuletail hummingbird
- An awakening and realization of a personality
- The Veterans Administration at Ft. Harrison, Montana
- Grateful for plumbers who arrived promptly :)
- High altitude cooking
- Here’s one for smiling :) … “Once you lick the frosting off a cupcake it becomes a muffin…and muffins are healthy. You’re welcome!”
Finding
- Finding this incredible artist
- Perhaps saying the right thing, after a lifetime of usually screwing that up
- Compassion
- Options
- Teachers who teach by example
- My daughter’s sweet spirit
- Bliss
- Finding something I worried I’d gotten rid of
- Thoughts
- This
these 7 seconds
Very Grateful for
God’s Woo-Hoo over each of us
the possibility of
strawberries
sleep
rain
reconnecting with tennis
fresh fish
time to exhale
We are all shards in a mosaic of Grace. ~Ann Voskamp