Today I am grateful for:

1. Gentleness
2. A kind email to read first thing in the morning
3. Finishing and closing my two online courses
4. Having only one job now!
5. Medicine that quickly helped my mother
6. My sister, who was available and willing to take mom to the doctor.
7. An air-conditioning repair technician with integrity
8. Belly laughs in the office
9. This poem
   10.  Everyone has problems, and learning to share them is essential. Hiding pain requires an enormous amount of energy; sharing it is liberating. ~Carly Simon

What I am grateful for after the first week of my second century~

1. Unscheduled Time
2. Home-made Yogurt
3. Home-made Granola
4. Really strong coffee
5. Baths
6. Naps
7. A pomegranate tree outside my windows
8. Making it through this climb 
9. Not being at all concerned about making the climb alone, until someone commented on it and my spirit fell like Peter’s while he walked on water.
   10.  Not staying in the place that they were creating for me out of their perceptions of companionship

 It is time to go and leave the past. Exile the thoughts of painful memories, you have learned what they have taught you. This is your moment to explore the continent of your dreams and discover the real YOU. ~Dodinsky

For these blessings I am grateful~

1. A day off
2. Followed by two more days off
3. My friend, Norri and I found out we are reading the same book, even though we live 2000 miles away from each other, a happy coincidence
4. Time on the ball machine today
5. My neighborhood during a weekday
6. Running through the sprinklers (again)
7. The thought, “how great it would be if all problems could be batted away” like the balls from the ball machine
8. Maybe they can… :)
9. a day off…

“Something of God…flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water….” ~ C.S. Lewis in Scraps

Today I am grateful,

1. For the colors, the tension, and the sentiment in this picture
2. For what I don’t know that God knows
3. That I did not get a job I thought would be “it” and finding out made me sad but not frenzied
4. For BigWaveDave who said, “God has you right where He wants you.”
5. That God gives me grace when I am petulant
6. For the possibility that maybe debt ceilings can be raised for people, not just governments? :)
7. For Frozen Yogurt
8. For Ruby, who does not care about the things I worry about; she just loves to chase the laser-pointer light
9. I am learning from Ruby

You can’t turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again. ~Life is Good

Today I am grateful for

1. Running through sprinklers…I loved this as a child and still love it!
2. A brief respite of rain
3. The excitement of rain’s promise and the smell of the rain just before and after
4. Treadmill time went by quickly
5. 3 solid minutes of running on the treadmill (if you are a taunt-tummied friend, please don’t smirk)
6. Ice water
7. Clean Sheets
8. Naps
9. S’mores Cookie Bars (the reason for #4 & #5)



What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. ~Pericles

Today I am grateful,

1. Hearing from a friend who had checked out for awhile,
2. Knowing she is ok and confronting difficult circumstances
3. The settled accomplished feeling of finishing a book
4. Taking notes about the book to preserve the feelings of it a little longer
5. Dyamond’s  post  about owning our truths and claiming our beauty
6. An opportunity to listen to Amelia, my daughter (as they get older, they don’t seem to need as much)
7. Receiving a letter in the mail, not a bill, or junk mail, but a letter
8. Brightly colored summer fruits
9. God is such an abundant Provider!

“Trying excessively to make a point with another may mean that we have not yet made that point with ourselves. I will concentrate today on accepting myself rather than trying to prove something about myself.” ~my friend Letisha

Today I am grateful for:

Being on this side of the doldrums
Working in a quiet office (rare!)
Office air-conditioning
A funny joke in an email just at the right time
Big fluffy clouds in my view
The possibility of rain
Tacos with Tedra
Remembering when a bill was due before it became past-due
Laughter in the parking lot

Nothing gives a person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and
unruffled under all circumstances. ~Thomas Jefferson

After reading a great post in Waves of Gratitude, today I am grateful for what I have and what I don’t have:

Grateful I don’t have:

1.)    A broken air-conditioner

2.)    Unfriendly neighbors

3.)    Empty pantry shelves

4.)    Empty gas tank

5.)    Aggressive dogs

6.)    Dried-up water well

7.)    An absence of books

8.)    Backed-up plumbing

9.)    Traffic on the way to work

“Where one can no longer love, there one should pass by.”
Quote sent from Garrett, thank you Garrett

1. Pinon Coffee
2. Handwritten letters
3. The warmth Ruby leaves behind when I move her over on the couch
4. A smile
5. This page with beautiful journal pictures http://pinterest.com/jyneneh/sketch-compose-journal/
6. No bill at the car repair place~~~really!
7. Sneaking away
8. A new possibility
9. Ice water
   “Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.”
   ~Mark Twain, sent in a blog post recommendation from Garrett

Today I am grateful,

1. When a door slammed in anger, I did not do the slamming
2. Finally the ice breaks: A co-worker spoke to me, three years there and this is the first time
3. for gloves on teen-aged hands
4. for tiny hammers breaking china for an art project
5. for Students Shivani and Noor, who tentatively, then with growing confidence, used the hammers to break the china
6. for a girls’ chorus of crack-laugh-break-giggle-as the chipped china became repurposed
7. for the huge smile of joy on Shivani’s face when she announced, “all done”
8. For God, who never tires of giving us new experiences to break our china patterns of  routine
9. For God, who repurposes our broken pieces into new vessels of beauty.

“I am indebted to no man and to only one woman, my dear wife.” Gerald Ford, commenting on his wife, Betty. rip