1. For Carol, who let me know this guy is coming to town
2. For T & G, sparkles in our lives
3. For my FIL, we just celebrated his birthday and it was a fun time this year
4. For my MIL, who is so gracious and helpful
5. For A, who is an earth angel (I am quite sure)
6. For T, who is full of youthful excitement and vigor, loves to learn and try, and is a true friend
7. For S, and our shared dreams across the pond
8. For R, for teaching me my shadow side, because I always project it onto her 
9. For G, whose friendship is unparalleled and knowledge infinite, and his love of poetry inspiring 
10. For J, my shining and best example of how to be loving, intelligent, wise, and elegant. 

1. We bought land- after a long and long and long process
2. Now for the encore- choosing builder, houseplan, and then alll the details. I have a little bit of gratitude that we get to do this, so I’m putting it here to expand my gratitude into deep appreciation and awe, which seems more on par with how lucky we are to be doing this
3. I’m deeply appreciative right now, however, for naps
4. And chocolate
5. And my incredible friends and family, who all know so much more than I can ever hope to, and who share their knowledge so freely
6. Being outside
7. Walks, God thank you for every walk
8. A jacket that I was delighted to find
9. Little joys
10. Clean clothes and sheets

1. Failures (seemed like such a great idea)
2. Keeping on
3. Seeing all my shortcomings when I can pull focus far enough back- I’m grateful because to see some of them clearly means I can do something about them
4. Learning to look at things from higher levels of thinking
5. Playing bigger
6. My dear friend’s presence
7. And or highschool-like excitement and enthusiasm
8. When things happen at the right time
9. No longer wasting as much energy
10. The ability to be grateful

1. Sleeping babies
2. Taking the road of love
3. The line between compassion and b.s.
4. Patience
5. Emotional self awareness
6. And self regulation
7. Opening to new ideas
8. Staying in my truth
9. Awareness of the inner field
10. This glorious life

1. For an incredible group of friends
2. For the ability to be real and be seen and to help
3. For acceptance
4. For my daughters
5. For my husband
6. For my health, my strong, energetic body, my clear and quick mind
7. For a place to live that’s near everything
8. For near-completion of a project
9. For the goodness and mercy of the past 8 years
10. For mindfulness

1. Daughter’s joy (the butterscotch had something to do with it)
2. Computer back from being fixed, for free!
3. My mother in law, who is grace embodied
4. Diane’s shoppe of wonderful things
5. A frozen morning walk
6. The pink sky over the trees
7. Synchronicity
8. Warm warm weather, in November
9. My MT family
10. Pictures of the mountains

1. Patience

2. Calm

3. Quiet

4. Smiles

5. Time to think

6. Dark early

7. Warm sun but cool breeze

8. Mindfulness practices

9. Games

10. Looking ahead

1. Martha Beck
2. Inner inklings
3. Bliss
4. Persistence
5. My incredible daughters
6. Laughing 
7. Being unapologetically me
8. Understanding more deeply
9. Self-care
10. A friend to share the journey with

1. An unexpected and completely wonderful package from our favorite (it’s easy to favor the world’s best!) librarian- beautiful books for the girls to enjoy
2. Rest and sleep and recovery from the world’s longest cold (from my perspective)
3. Ironing out details and smoothing ruffled feathers between professionals 
4. A meeting with incredible minds and hearts and souls 
5. Seeing a few big-picture vantage points
6. Working out, which feels wonderful, why do I let it lapse
7. Standing my mama ground
8. Letting others have a bad moment without needing to join them 
9. Peace and quiet inside
10. Creative recovery

1. A beautiful day
2. My 3.5 year old is riding a bike without training wheels, as of yesterday. I could not be more proud. 
3. We also started home school a few weeks ago, and I say gratitude every day that I am able to do that with her
4. I’m grateful we’re getting into more of a groove as a family
5. I’m so grateful for this wooded, nature-filled space to live and spend our time
6. I appreciate the libraries so much, my universe would be the size of a dust particle without all that libraries have given me
7. I love having the opportunity to look and choose and decide and compare for as long as we need to in our home search
8. I am so grateful for my body, its health, and all the incredible functions and systems that keep it running and thriving
9. I am so grateful for exercize, walking, workouts and activities that make my lungs work and my legs move
10. I am so grateful for this practice, which has changed me. 
11. Also this.