1. God
2. Julie, wise, beautiful and strong
3. Christa’s wonderful creative example
4. Helen using creative pursuits to work with what life gives her and her kind and supportive correspondence
5. Kind note from Jean
6. Rachael keeping me informed of her progress
7. Sleep
8. How the world looks different in the morning
9. “Stay on the train, the scenery will change”
10. “Wear life like a loose garment”
1. Chamomile tea
2. An incredibly productive day
3. Doing tasks I’ve been putting off
4. Just getting them done!
5. Informational videos
6. That energy burst that comes after something is finished (so strange, but welcome!)
7. My Wacom tablet
8. Adobe’s incredible creative suite- there is so much a girl can do with those tools!
9. Inside jokes
10. “Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.” -Thomas Jefferson
Very grateful for
If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake. ~F. Wikzek
1. God
2. The people who prepared the food and served it
3. Warm greetings
4. Being able to appreciate others’ successes
5. An opportunity
6. A voice
7. Feeling free to make decisions
8. Trust in my experience and faith in my abilities
9. Working with an awesome group of people
10. Out of nowhere
11. I acknowledge the spirit in you which is in me.
1. A balmy after-dark walk
2. Skip-Bo
3. Homemade soup
4. A little spark of inspiration
5. Which led me to complete a big project
6. Trying new things
7. Systems
8. Productivity
9. Putting it out there
10. “Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.” -Ovid
1. God
2. Coincidences, “God’s way of remaining anonymous”
3. Pema’s moving story project
4. Pinterest is very much fun
5. Living in the solution
6. Kind greetings from Carol
7. A welcome phone call from Kate
8. Bringing Cassie dinner
9. Beautiful late summer days
10. Tammy Lee’s drawings such as this one
11. A good gratitude reminder “amazing things happen to you all the time“
1. An absolutely lovely lunch with a dear friend!
2. We were talking so intently we didn’t feel the earthquake (!)
3. The nicest postman you’ll ever meet told me about it about half an hour later
4. My husband said he felt it, in the building where he was- everyone was shocked!
5. So far, no injuries reported- hooray!
6. I crossed off everything on my to-do list today
7. And spent time outside in this absolutely perfect weather
8. And went for a walk with my wonderful husband
9. I love watching the leaves juuust starting to turn
10. “This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight, like a spy, through the ripening country-side, and, with feigned sympathy for those who droop with August heat, puts her cool cloak of bracing air about leaf and flower and human shoulders.” -Sarah Orne Jewett
1. God
2. Wood
3. Columns
4. Porches
5. Hats
6. Surprises
7. Meeting new people
8. Sally flaunting it
9. Sylvia’s lifetime of service (75 years old, can barely walk, helps a 52 yr old man get his GED, visits a sick person in a home, goes to prisons and talks about alternatives to violence; above all she encouraged Hannah not to pigeonhole herself, perhaps the best advice)
10. Gratitude