1. God
2. Starting from gratitude
3. David’s teachers
4. My parents for their love of their grandchildren
5. I think my father laughs more the older he gets
6. Window boxes
7. Thank you to Barry for mentioning architecture. My attention is drawn by building shapes, angles, light, details.
8. What I will I remember from yesterday?
9. Feeling different from yesterday

My project is working my way through layers in our “Black Hole ” room.

I remember when two little boys slept in there, Just two years apart. They are 35 and 33 now. They each had there sleeping space with a shared wall wallpapered in Garfield. I can remember whispers and arguments and plotting.

I’m finding old pictures a family album in boxes. It is a worthwhile project to organize these but not today.

Why do we keep clothes thinking we’ll wear them if we just lose weight? I’m picturing someone at Good Will smiling because they found something good.

We found a beautiful table at Good Will last night and when went to pay for it ,half off better still! Grateful to who donated it! Grateful for the bargain!

It is illogical to be jealous of my daughter for going to Vegas to visit my other daughter but you feel what you feel. My gratitude is that they are spending time together and she’ll take pictures at Disney and San Diego.

It is illogical to expect that we can get everything done so quickly. I’m grateful for what we’ve accomplished and hopeful that we can continue working hard.

Don’t you just love Spock? Eyebrow raised he would think illogical,totally illogical.

1. I finally found a good online gratitude journal- We Love Gratitude!
2. Made dinner just in time for parents’ return home from the grocery store!
3. My sister ate the corn I made!
4. Delicious curry dinner with lots of veggies, plus green beans, duck, and chicken sausage!
5. Slow-cooked herbal soup!
6. Sold a necklace on eBay!
7. God’s providence!
8. Clear urine and normal, healthy legs!
9. Free medicine!
10. Got some great peace-and-quiet time today and naptime!
11. It looks like I’ll have enough money left in food stamps to buy bread on Monday! Yay!
12. I love how beautiful, sunny, and warm it is outside, and then there’s the coolness of the basement as a haven!

1. Sweet memories of my mom, whose birthday is today
2. Planting some daisies in my sunny garden in her honor…
3. …with dozens of zinnias to follow this weekend
4. Taking at least 10,000 steps – a goal I set this morning
5. Two nature walks – one this morning and one this evening
6. Running into a new friend (whom I’d never met before:)
7. Recognizing that he, too, was a birder (the binoculars and camera were good clues:)
8. Finding the Lark Sparrow, because two pairs of eyes are better than one
9. Sitting outside with my hubby and enjoying the perfect evening
10. Surrendering to slumber

Tha k you for the gift of another beautiful day
Thank you for my daughters
Thank you for my husband
Thank you for my friends and family
Thank you for ‘strangers’ and all they do to help
Thank you for fun
Thank you for the unfun, whih sharpens, strengthens, and makes us grow

• Hearing from my bedroom,  mum playing her favourit music on youtube
• Very nice and friendly police officer made it easy to renew my passport
• My basic mood is pretty bright and light despite having an exhausted body today
• Driving in L A Tokyo Honolulu or in Seychellene is so accessible on youtube
• Nature sounds too – my favourit is 8 hours natural birdsong – soothing the atmosphere in our house
• With so little energy – i get the chance to choose more what relly matters on the longer run.
• Summer is gently sliding in – thank you wonderful spring for all your gifts

• Thankful for having a beautiful park nearby to sit and enjoy my lunch break.
• Thankful JO got the alone time he was looking for.
• Thankful the bachelorette is back! As dramatic as it is…
• Thankful for stand up comedians turning my mood around
• Thankful for good health all around for my friends and family
• Thankful for the gift of another day

1 Time to people watch

2 Wrinkle free clothing

3 The juxtaposition of Architecture

4 Dry cleaning

5 Vegetable Lasangne with no cook noodles!

6 A simple meal turning in to a party with new like-minded friends!

7 Witnessing the workings of a job that I applied for and didn’t get – thank you God!

8 Trees gracefully dancing in the wind

9 Blue Tooth devices  – safer driving, surround sound!

10 Watercolor masquerading as Sky!

1.   People who can share their gratitude through the ups and downs of life.

2.   The fresh air as I stepped outside to let my dog Jax out.

3.    Being on vacation, being able to wake up pet my dog Jax, and lay back down and read from my Kindle as long as I want.

4.    My awesome son.  What a great young man he has grown into.

5.    Another sober 24 hours.

6.    That I know through my grief I will grow One Day At A Time.

I woke up a little after 5 a.m as if it was time to do something. Perfect opportunity to turn to gratitude.

A friend posted on Facebook how wonderful she felt and how she felt so grateful to be alive and part of the plan. Her friends turned on her,ridiculed her and made it a joke. I was incensed everyone should have the right to be grateful and not apologize for it.So I’m grateful for Anne who though she is struggling thinks life is incredible. (It is!)

Choir party last night. Good food,good friends. Perfect evening to be out watching the little ones play! We raise our voice in song and though this one is difficult with four part harmony I love being part of the group.

A line from the hymn” for all all who borrow life from Thee lift up your voice in prayer for everywhere that  we can be You are there” Where is God? In us,in you as well as around us.

Going to Cornerstone to buy a plant this afternoon. It is wonderful to see the outpouring of love.

Grateful for air conditioners. I was moving stuff in our “Black Hole” room. Too much stuff!

The blog Crystal posted resonated with me. Everything you own owns you! Simplify!

Hubby is working so hard everyday to make our little shack look better! Yesterday he poured cement and set posts for a porch rail.

Doctor pronounced my eyes healed. Over a year I had inflammation. He’ll check them in the Fall but thinks I am finally better.

Fill your day with gratitude and love and empty those closets!