1. cleaned up house
2. friends coming over
3. new book club for FIRE STARTER SESSIONS by Daniele LaPorte — incredible book!
4. movies this afternoon – “Moonrise Kingdom”
5. dinner with family
6. taking 95 year old Dad to investigate the possibility of an iPad! Wow!
7. keeping my fingers crossed that my Dad really gets an iPad
8. such a happy day already, and it’s only morning
Thank you, God!
1. the color purple
2. clean kitchen floors
3. books, glorious books
4. going to the movies
5. finding free things to do
6. visiting my garden
7. morning glory buds
8. blue nail polish
9. all the people in my life
10. all the people not in my life!
1. refreshing shower
2. another day of possibilities
3. looking forward to church
4. flip flops
5. sock monkey pajamas, of course!
6. fun on Facebook
7. looking at my new wooden Zentangle bowl — thank you, April
8. memories of the wonderful hot fudge sundae last night with my friend, Bill
9. Mickey Mouse Hawaiian shirt — high style!
10. listening to acoustic music and grooving my way into my day!
Thank you, God, for every minute — I am appreciating this day as it unfolds.
1. Fresh corn on the cob
2. Dark cherries
3. Cream cheese and green olives on pumpernickel bread
4. Two eggs over easy and wheat toast
5. Kale with sesame oil
6. Blue cheese potato salad
7. Ruffles potato chips and Lawson’s chip dip (celebration food)
8. Yellow squash and zucchini from my 95 year old Dad’s garden
9. Ripe, red tomatoes eaten like an apple
10. Asparagus
1. DVR
2. gasoline for my car, even when it costs a lot
3. saving quarters — they always help me out of money jams!
4. comfortable shoes
5. tea — green, white, and black!
6. Smurfs!
7. reading autobiographies
8. cell phones
9. little buds on my morning glories — Heavenly Blue! can’t wait to meet them!
10. organic apple cider vinegar – 1 tablespoon in 8 oz. of warm water (then rinse out your mouth) twice daily — it has helped my arthritis in my hands enormously —
11. ice water
1. This weekend was the “Class of 65 turns 65” birthday reunion.
2. Firestone High School – Akron, Ohio
3. Friday night was terrific, and seeing people I hadn’t seen in over twenty years was wonderful.
4. So many classmates became writers and teachers! Hooray!
5. The shrimp at the party on Friday night were HUGE!
6. At first I was a little apprehensive, but knew it would end up to be fun if I started out cheerfully!
7. Saturday morning — a trip to our old high school which is being torn down soon.
8. Then a trip to Swenson’s, a drive-in restaurant, where we took the place by storm!
9. Next onto Mary Coyle’s, a local ice cream parlor — some people hadn’t been there since high school!
10. Saturday night was at a country club — great food and ambiance, and more fun.
Thank you to all the planners and my classmates for creating such a great and memorable weekend!
1. Setting up my “office” on the patio, next to my fairy rock garden!
2. Hanging around with my grandsons, Nate and Andrew.
3. Keeping an eye out for free concerts and other events to keep the Summer lively!
4. Sandals and shorts!
5. Wearing lots of Hawaiian shirts!
6. Watermelon, my beloved watermelon!
7. Outside picnics!
8. Fun with flowers!
9. Seeing neighbors out and about!
10. Little League baseball — much more fun than professional!
1. What a privilege it is to wake each morning and begin a new day!
2. Felt sad that I had to get another soft cast put on my foot for a fracture, but then saw a man with two of those unwieldy boots on and realized how blessed I am to have one good foot and another one in the healing process.
3. Flew into Denver and then to Bismarck and had wheelchair assistants everywhere who were so nice and kind.
4. I am always glad to get off a plane and get my “real” life back — flying always feels not scary, but like it’s a weird thing to do!
5. Had the best egg salad ever at the Denver airport — with Dijon mustard! I am a mustard person, and to Dijon is my very favorite.
6. There was a man on the first flight who flew into a verbal rage — so lucky not to have people like that yelling at me!
7. Just finished Drama – An Actor’s Life by John Lithgow — fascinating.
8. Found a powerful and amazing book that is so intriguing, I am thinking of doing a book group on it. The Fire Starter Sessions by Danielle LaPorte. (check amazon.com for a peak inside)
9. Danielle talks about how it’s an issue of integrity when we don’t put our sacred ambitions on our weekly calendar. Oh my!
10. Got up at 3 a.m., so I am looking forward to a wonderful night’s sleep — and getting the privilege of starting a new day tomorrow! Hooray!
1. Oprah’s Life Class on gratitude – wowzers!
2. When you are feeling truly grateful, you can’t feel fear or anger or other negative emotions.
3. Gratitude is great, but putting gratitude in action is even better!
4. Oprah says that doing her gratitude list of five things she’s grateful for every night is the single most important thing she does and that it changes her life dramatically.
5. Trials and tribulations are blessings in retrospect — if you can remember that when they are happening, it can be transformative.
6. List big events in your life that bring you gratitude, first in your mind with your hand on your heart.
7. Do a written list of events that made you grateful!
8. There’s a parallel between gratitude and giving.
9. The gift and the giver are the same.
10. The only true belief you need to have is of your unlimited potential.
11. Unlock the power of gratitude!
1. Love getting the We Love Gratitude posts in my email.
2. Thankful for the morning newspaper.
3. So glad for Prosperous Heart by Julia Cameron, which our group is finishing today!
4. Going to do a Zentangle/Zendala class at an ARTbundance Retreat in September up on Lake Erie! Hooray!
5. So grateful to my favorite libraries for storing all the books I don’t have room for at my house! lol
6. My Dad’s 95th birthday party was great fun, and so is he!
7. Going to a WRAP (Wellness Recovery Action Plan) retreat next week in Massachusetts. Yippee!
8. Playing with my colored pencils — one of these days I will get the hang of it!
9. Sunshiney day today — full appreciation for that!
10. Grateful for gratitude, and all the wonderful quotes from Belle!