All posts by Crystal

Thank you

  1. A group of incredibly intelligent and compassionate women
  2. Seeing one I’ve known awhile for the first time, really seeing her
  3. Hearing encouragement from a woman I admire and respect
  4. Sitting quietly and really listening and watching
  5. Incredible how the underlying energy shows itself
  6. Preparing to try new things, again, as always ;)
  7. Plans to carry on the cookie tradition
  8. Incredible resources- and also seeing them from a bird’s eye view
  9. Texts from a friend I’d been thinking about
  10. This magical day

Thank you

  1. Incredible help from every direction
  2. Being of help and giving
  3. Emails that make me smile
  4. Sally said, do a CSW shirt! So I launched one, and it is already a success. 
  5. My husband who is the yin to my yang, or something like that
  6. My daughters, when I stop and really listen, they are beyond fascinating and incredible
  7. Technology that allows all this
  8. The way gratitude changes everything
  9. Cooler weather, so lovely
  10. This, all of it

Thank you

  1. Meeting & bouncing ideas together
  2. A friend sent me something so valuable I hardly have the words to thank her. I know our journey together will be the gratitude
  3. My daughters
  4. New feelings, new setpoints
  5. Excitement
  6. A little validation
  7. Open Focus meditation
  8. My dear friends, all of them 
  9. Having something to give
  10. This beautiful day

Thank you

  1. The Nutcracker with my eldest and grandma and T&G
  2. Meeting one of the incredible dancers afterward and realizing he knew my MIL
  3. Music
  4. Inspiration
  5. Being in a calm place to make decisions
  6. An idea borne of necessity
  7. The Christmas season
  8. Movement
  9. Letting go of rigid ideas
  10. Accepting what is

Thank you

  1. Unexpected encouragement
  2. Joy in trying new things
  3. Help from the woman I call the “Swiss Army Knife” of Periscope
  4. Book orders from lovely people, and books shipped off to them
  5. A rainy evening walk
  6. Sending cards
  7. Inspiration for something bigger than me
  8. Figuring it out as I go (parenting is one)
  9. Loud and funny moms at the library today
  10. Hugs

Thank You

  1. Hearing the chorus of my family’s voices in speakerphone
  2. Warm weather to take the girls out in
  3. Great meal by my in-laws
  4. Egg nog (not the spiked kind)
  5. Seeing mindfully
  6. Open Focus Brain exercises
  7. Checking my ego
  8. Protecting my babies
  9. When to say when
  10. This day, this moment

Thank you

  1. Meditation
  2. Our glorious earth
  3. The big moon rising over the horizon
  4. H loves the moon and puts her hand up over her head, wide eyes, and says mm, at the mere idea of getting to see it
  5. An outpouring of support for my book release
  6. A really nice connection with my firstborn
  7. Books I can hardly bear to return to the library
  8. Cancelled events so we have more glorious time
  9. A fun book for A to work in
  10. Isn’t this an amazing life?

Friends

  1. Meetings with friends
  2. Spontaneous ideas
  3. A bit of sit and chat, liesurely
  4. The tree festival downtown, dozens of gorgeously decorated trees, incredible themes
  5. Not stressing, so much
  6. Our family
  7. Going through plans and thinking about what they’d be like to live in
  8. Chilly air, warm sweaters
  9. Walk with my eldest
  10. The opportunity to be here, on earth, and live such a free life

Thank You

  1. For the opportunity to see Carol
  2. For communication in parenting
  3. For our new land, and that the corn in the front was cleared- we were thinking it would be our task
  4. For bright blue skies and endless clouds
  5. For the birds
  6. For trees and earth and imagination
  7. For the ability to see where I need to change 
  8. For children, each and every one
  9. For prayer when that’s all I have
  10. For this day, this gift