Monthly Archives: March 2014

Saturday blessings

Gratitude
  1. A dear friend who sent a text of encouragement today (thank you)
  2. Walking the dog
  3. Sunshine
  4. A lovely visit from an out-of-town friend whom I haven’t seen in about a year
  5. We treated my husband to an early birthday dinner at a Mexican restaurant that is famous around these parts
  6. And laughed hysterically when the waiters came over to our table with dessert and a sombrero for Denny and sang to him in Spanish (he looked so silly in that hat) :))))
  7. Leaving more than a 20% tip
  8. Good conversation and reminiscing
  9. An eye-opening book
  10. Soon…rest (ahhh!)

Learn

Gratitude
  1. Finishing Waitzkin’s Art of Learning and smiling- what an excellent book
  2. Joy here, now, regardless of the circumstances
  3. Help when I asked
  4. Everything working out. It always does
  5. Deep breathing
  6. Presence
  7. My grandma’s memories, I just love them
  8. Adventures and discoveries
  9. Not grasping for something to hold on to
  10. This

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Gratitude
  • Remembering Haruko, my Japanese roommate from forever ago :)
  • Bookmobile
  • Cookie loves her bath :)
  • Poster of GPa’s Dad in his suit holding a baton, advertising his orchestra…
  • …  “Dance to Music with a Mood”  :)
  • Old, old, old phone numbers…910…7114
  • And all of the electronic devices available in today’s fast paced world
  • Windy walk today
  • Hugs from Becky
  • “I have time enough, wisdom enough, strength enough, and energy enough to do whatever is before me this day.”  -Martha Smock

Challenges

Gratitude
  1. Meeting them even when you want to hide
  2. Seeing truth in the heart of the paradox
  3. Laughing in spite of myself
  4. Not giving up
  5. Giving in to what is
  6. Manifesting the next “what is”
  7. Mini-meltdown
  8. Releasing
  9. Finding my footing
  10. Getting the “aha”

According to whom?

Gratitude

1. God

2. Acting rationally in self-preservation

3. Different freezing points of liquids

4. Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs)

5. Accepting limits to knowledge and understanding

6. Cassie taking care of David’s dental needs

7. David likes to read aloud and read aloud to me

8. Hearing something again for the first time

9. Tints and shades

 

“For weeks, I realized, I’d been angry.  Perhaps moving forward really meant moving beyond that impotent, helpless anger and surrendering instead to everything I couldn’t fix or control.  I’d been annoyed at my body for letting me down; why not be grateful to it for still holding me up? I’d been disappointed by my failure to cope with grace; why not acknowledge that I’d done the best I could? I’d been secretly disgusted at myself for not being invincible; why not yield at last to my own tender humanness?” Katrina Kenison

Awakening

Gratitude
  1. Jo Dunning
  2. Activation of the pineal gland
  3. Feeling energy coursing through me
  4. Intentions
  5. Soul-based desires
  6. Divine connection
  7. Sequencing DNA to its original blueprint
  8. Thinking outside the box
  9. Venturing into the morphic field where miracles happen
  10. Gratititude

Willpower

Gratitude
  1. Impulse control
  2. Learning that willpower is a muscle that can be strengthened
  3. And also fatigues after repeated use, like in the evening after a long day
  4. Knowledge can lead to awareness, which is powerful
  5. Subtly reading the situation and adjusting
  6. Watching the ego
  7. Stories of growth
  8. Sending future me messages
  9. Reading about Japanese baths, relaxing and social (and maybe linked to longevity?)
  10. this