1. pens and pencils — I would be lost without them
2. orange juice
3. chocolate birthday cake
4. my Dad, Sherman Bailey’s 95th birthday yesterday! Yippee!
5. 3 x 5 cards
6. notebook paper
7. vitamins
8. sweatshirts of every kind
9. Zentangles – see zentangle.com
10. this place of love, kindness, and gratitude
1. My winter indoor garden of orchids — white, purple, and purple striped — truly gorgeous and long lasting.
2. The fairy garden I built on the shelf around my plants.
3. My Smurf collection on a shelf on the wall.
4. My huge Smurf poster — my idea of high art!
5. My book of smiles, with photographs of 81 people I care about.
6. My new book of people from all over the world.
7. Teaching Zentangles today out of town.
8. Meeting new people.
9. Looking forward to Easter tomorrow, and starting the day wearing Easter bunny ears!
10. Going to give the employees at McDonald’s Peeps after special deliveries are made.
1. What do you eat if you are feeling a little low? Cheerios, of course, and now I am eating them almost every day!
2. Bananas! What would this world be like without wonderful bananas?
3. Avocado — nature’s perfect food (and guacamole, too!)
4. Watermelon — red and ripe, not seasonal yet, but summer will bring abundance.
5. Delicatessen dill pickles — oh yes!
6. Brussel sprouts — how cute are they? and delicious, too!
7. Pears when they are perfectly ripe and juicy!
8. Cotton candy — not readily available, thank heavens!
9. Corn on the cob in the summer — my ultimate favorite, especially with watermelon.
10. My current favorite sandwich — cream cheese on pumpernickel bread with sliced green olives!
We are truly blessed with the enormous amount of food choices out there! And so lucky to have food fairly readily available.
1. Do you ever wake up in the morning and just feel like you are going to have a happy day?
2. On mornings like these, I am sure I make choices to get off to a happy start.
3. It is amazing to me that I have so many blessings.
4. Even a day that has some really hard things in it, those tough experiences are usually surrounded by blessings.
5. Sometimes when I wake up, the song “Good Morning, Starshine” is in my head.
6. Or I laugh to the tune — “Roll out the Carol”, sometimes known as “The Beer Barrel Polka”
7. Doing my morning routine fully really helps to get my day off to a great start — laughing exercises, journaling and gratitudes are at the top of the list.
8. It is wonderful to think that each day is a new beginning!
9. Hearing the birds in the morning really perks me up, too.
10. Each day is filled with possibilities — all day long! Thank you, God, for each new day!
1. Aren’t friends amazing? They come in all sizes, ages, backgrounds, and are often chosen family!
2. Some friends check in by phone, email, or even better — in person! Hooray!
3. Friends can be made today, or have been there for you for really really long periods of time in your life.
4. Real friends are not always the one who agree with you all the time, or say yes to all your harebrained ideas!
5. When times are rough, and it’s hard to reach out, friends step in and quietly pitch in to make things better.
6. Often friends can sense when they’re needed and just appear like Angels.
7. I appreciate friends who keep in touch regularly, but also friends who appear at unlikely times.
8. There are 3 friends of mine, and we are “Island Girls” together. We are there for each other for maximum fun times, and also stormy weather. Yahoo!
9. Just ran into a co-worker from over 18 years ago at a concert on Saturday night — how thrilling to find out what’s been happening during all these years. Now we’re Facebook friends already.
10. This place of gratitude is also a friendship place for me. There is a sense of community here as we reveal bits and piece of our lives in our gratitude lists, and make comments on each other’s posts.
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
– Anais Nin
1. three deep purple hyacinths on the kitchen table
2. new multi-colored pen – fun!
3. graph paper for my list making
4. my new Mac laptop, Alma Mae
5. memories of last night and a wonderful concert with Greg Brown
6. a cup of Blackberry sage tea in a “Life is Good” mug
7. mending fences with a dear friend
8. white and purple striped orchids — my winter garden!
9. Sunday morning newspaper
10. looking forward to church at Unity
1. For over a month, I looked forward to Leap Day as a day that I could do anything I want!
2. Oh my! What a revolutionary idea, and it made my heart sing in anticipation.
3. I even had a little pre-Leap Day fun the day before to get warmed up for this momentous day, with unexpected synchronicities and little happy events.
4. Bright and early on this magic day, I got to go over to my grandsons house (6 and 8), and help get them ready for school and then transport them. Andrew and Nate, you are a celebration to me just by your very existence.
5. Off to a wonderful new health foods grocery store, Earth Fare, where they have a bright and friendly cafe, with free WiFi — delightful.
6. Setting up my “office” in outside locations is a new amusement for me, and I swear to you that the next person to come into that cafe looked just like Salvador Dali — same wild mustache and all! Hooray! He was my office companion even though he was two booths away.
7. “Suffer? Dali never suffer. I am all time enjoy.” — Salvador Dali
8. There were so many fun and interesting drinks to chose from — I had a “Wonder Drink”, green tea and lemon. I just knew if I drank it, I would be filled with wonder, and I was. Much better than those energy drinks that scare me.
9. Had a meeting with a remarkable woman, who is coordinating all kinds of amazing services and kindnesses for people dealing with eating disorders. Soon I will be presenting to one of their groups on fun and creativity as healing and energizing forces. Yippee!
10. Watching the DVR of American Idol — just fascinated with that show and the incredible perseverance and talent in people so young and brave.
11. “Prosperous Heart” group meeting where the participants flabbergasted me with an enormous act of kindness — stepping in to cover a deficit I hadn’t known about. It was a roomful of “Generous Hearts”!
12. Over to Books-A-Million for a Barbara Kingsolver treasure — don’t read much fiction, but when I do, I demand excellence (usually – lol) and Barbara Kingsolver always delivers.
13. At 10:10 p.m., some dear friends and I saw “Iron Lady” with Meryl Streep. She should have gotten three Oscars for that performance!
14. Leap Day for me — a day of love, miracles, abundance, generosity, and kindness! And Leap Year — as my friend Holly says, 2012 has the potential to be an astonishing year for all of us.
I exist in utter gratitude. Thank you to God, the Universe, and the phenomenal people in my life.
1. Congratulations to Belle’s happy family upon the arrival of the delightful and amazing Ava!
2. Babies are the ultimate gratitude generators.
3. Looking in a baby’s face is a miracle.
4. When a baby smiles at you, blessings abound!
5. I believe that babies know all the secrets of life — they just don’t have the words to tell us quite yet.
6. If only we could understand whey they are trying to say when they make their first efforts at speech — goo goo ga ga!
7. Their fingers and toes are awesome works of art to be closely observed and photographed often.
8. As they reveal their personalities, it is incredible to be be included in their circle!
9. Every little accomplishment is a major landmark of wonderment!
10. We were all babies once — and hopefully we were loved as much as we deserved! If not, it is us to us to surround ourselves with love now — and bestow it often, also!
Hooray for babies and love!
1. Leftover Greek Pitza for breakfast from my favorite restaurant, Aladdin’s
2. A full tank of gas
3. two pairs of comfortable tennis shoes — one white, one black and gray
4. the refrigerator full and interesting after a trip to the grocery store
5. knowing what we are going to cook for Sunday dinner
6. expecting my Paparoonio for Sunday dinner
7. conversations after a meal
8. a lovely cup of tea after coming in from the the cold
9. having enough art supplies to last a lifetime almost
10. two gorgeous orchids — one purple and one white — my Winter garden!
11. welovegratitude.com
12. amazing friends and family (they are really number ONE!)
1. So grateful for physical therapy to get my shoulder back in shape — thank heavens!
2. My physical therapist, Mike, is funny, kind, and knowledgable — hooray!
3. Right in the middle of physical therapy, I got presented with a surprise donut! wow!
4. Today I had my sunglasses on by mistake when I was reading stories to my grandson Andrew’s first grade class — it was so fun because I could really look at that darling sea of faces more carefully than usual! yippee!
5. Is there anything more fun in this world than sitting in front of a class full of first graders and reading fun books to them? Not too many things beat that!
6. Off to the library to get books for next week’s story time. It’s always a triumph to find just the right ones. yahoo!
7. As if this day could get any better — lunch with my wonderful husband, amazing Papa, and fabulous son! oh my!
8. Adventuring in Angel Falls coffee shop with my rose tea, laptop, emails, jazz, people to look at, and cool atmosphere. groovy!
9. Got an email with an invitation to do a workshop and a speaking engagement in North Dakota in May! terrific!
10. I’ve been taking photographs of all the buildings I’ve been in today for my “Little Bliss List” to put on my blog celebratepossibilities.blogspot.com later on today. fun!
11. 46 days until Spring! and it’s a no jacket day in Akron, Ohio — sunny and beautiful!