1. God
2. The life of Jay Grateful, which is not his name but how I have always thought of him.
3. And to Rob for telling us of the celebration of his life.
4. Visitors
5. Examples of gratitude
6. Imagination
7. In all languages
8. Sight
9. Water dogs
10. Harmony rhythm and melody
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1. God
2. Julia’s poem
3. Love this blog post about gratitude, gratitude postcards, and watch the video (in which, unlike in much research these days, they replicated an experiment!)
4. Cassie mixes herbs and flowers in her vases
5. Cassie’s delight spending time with Emily
6. The idea of “reading the room,” simply noticing, when one visits a person in home or office, taking in what’s important to that person, using it for conversation and connection. I read it in a book about sales, a kind of negotiation I’ve conducted on the other side of the table from the author for almost two decades, in ignorance.
7. Helen
8. Saying hard things and not engaging in a useless argument
9. Delight
10. New day
1. God
2. Emerging worlds
3. Joyful harvest
4. Found books
5. Thoughts from Kate
6. Steven accommodating our early drop in
7. Jeff’s patience
8. A group ready to meet at a given time
9. A quick decision
10. Stopping by farmland
11. Unexpected purple gladiolus
12. The library bringing the library to the park and the kids in the bookmobile
1. God
2. Living
3. Stories
4. Stamps
5. Sleep
6. Rising
7. Something’s always holding me up
8. The ever changing landscape
9. No hurry
1. God
2. Hills
3. Valleys
4. Beaches
5. Grace
6. Gazpacho from Betsy via Pete
7. Cucumbers to put on top
8. Open book
9. Watching birds in the garden
1. God
2. Abundance of sunshine
3. Sauteed vegetables from our garden
4. A place to perch upon in a room full of people
5. Cassie is a good listener
6. I hadn’t seen English Bill in seven years and we were glad to see each other is still on the planet
7. Giving tomatoes to Alan (my neighbor) that he take with him on his trip
8. Finding an excellent set of cards in Sheila;s store (Sheila is quite excellent)
9. Talking with Alan, my nephew, on the phone
1. God
2. Yellow finches upon sunflowers
3. Main Street and Moody Street and the sunlight (maugre the dust)
4. Muffin and her lion cut
5. Sunflowers repurposed on the other side of the fence, peering over happily
6. Hearing one thing
7. Good advice
8. Coleus taking root in the vase
9. Hannah and ice cream
10. Lawn and refuse bags (although the collectors might refuse to take them)
1. God
2. Landscapes
3. Shapes of trees
4. overhanging the street
5. The young man who fixed the computer and moved the phone
6. Simple software fixes
7. Sounds
8. Plates
9. Willingness to learn
10. Willingness to go places
1. God
2. Cats and catnip
3. Chloe sent us a video with Alan giving a tour of their new house
4. Outdoors
5. Doors
6. Plumbing
7. Ripe tomatoes
8. Card from Crystal and family
9. Card from Sylvia
1. God
2. Stuffed zucchini (subsequently stuffed Garrett)
3. I don’t like waking up at 3 am, but am grateful there is any AM
4. Family and extensions
5. Whatever price in humility
6. Sun rising and setting
7. That someone or several someones taught me to read and write long ago, so if I don’t read or write, why?
8. Cosmos (the flower and everything)