1. For this day
2. For friends
3. For health
4. For validation
5. Learning something about a friend
6. My joyful kids
7. Wood fire
8. Contentment
9. Commitment to the process
10. Here, now

1. A walk in the woods
2. My daughters
3. Home remedies
4. The gritty, determined value of discipline
5. Thinking deeply
6. Calm
7. Remembering where the center is
8. Not trying to please anyone, which feels a little strange when I stop, like going without a coat in the cold
9. Physics
10. This

1. My grandma sent me Mimi Thorrison’s cookbook, which is very likely the most beautiful book I’ve ever owned, I can’t stop planning my next meal, but where will I get duck? Maybe I’ll raise my own- talk about meal planning
2. When I was a child she gave me Linnea’s Monet book too- I’m seeing a pattern of beauty and French
3. My daughters are beginning their love of books- both ask to be read to (Hannah’s ‘asking’ consists of holding a book up and fussing til we open it)
4. My friend is going through a hard time and while I feel deeply sad that she experiences these things, I can’t help but be excited about the transformation she’s going through and how (the overused metaphor) the diamond is forged through extreme pressure
5. I am learning just how often and effectively people keep what they really mean or think to themselves, and don’t say things, for many reasons (some seemingly out of kindness) but – maybe not but, yet? Or out of naivetè? It doesn’t feel good or right to censor myself or to delay talking about what’s real and true for me- or ask the question that no one else dares to. I’m grateful for this irreverence, and only pray my sincerity will knock the edges off any rudeness that comes across.
6. I’m also kiss-the-ground thankful I was raised in a way that makes being who I want to be fairly easy
7. A little girl at the library the other day tattled to me about the fact that my daughter didn’t have her shoes on. I smiled and said I know- then dropped my voice to a whisper and said, I don’t always make my girls follow the rules. The look on her face I will always carry with me. She was shocked and agreeing and a little something else perhaps.
8. I’m grateful that, sometimes, when you make your own rules and refuse to follow other silly ones, often people think that’s great and follow the new rules too, and change happens
9. I’m also grateful that sometimes, the rule police get all over your case and make it their mission to get you to conform, because you’re challinging something important to them and to see them defend it is beautiful. Regardless of the outcome.
10. And I’m grateful for the ways we can opt out of the game, the big one, though they’re mostly few and far between

1. Feeling good
2. And not shying away from fear
3. Seeing my actions in others and learning from it- what that feels like, what I’d rather do
4. My little world explorers
5. Figuring out ways to show it to them
6. Safety and the illusion of it
7. Vulnerability
8. Habits
9. Books I can’t put down
10. Saturdays and the illusion of time

1. Prayers answered
2. Forgiveness and moving on
3. A little more clarity
4. Getting friendly with fear (I first typoed “fiendly” which made me smile)
5. Knowing it’ll all be okay, no matter what
6. Realizing what that special something is
7. Jewel’s memoir
8. Incredible ideas and thoughts and questions
9. Plans cancelled equalled exactly what I needed
10. Loving what is

1. Powerful, intelligent women who share my interests
2. Incredible things to learn
3. Making things home-y
4. Daughter’s joy
5. Short but good walk
6. Time in nature with my girls
7. Food, clothing, shelter- not small things
8. Joy inside
9. My health, and my family’s health
10. The opportunity to be here

I am so grateful for
A place to live
Food to eat
Friends to talk to
My children
My husband
Experiments going well
Groundedness
New ideas & things to try
Toes in river water
Self acceptance

For life
For more than I realize or acknowledge I have
For endless (truly- endless) information
For family
For beautiful surroundings
For knowing all will be well
For touching close to the definition of purpose
For instincts
For self defense
For our innate desire to live and thrive and help others

1. 8
2. Grace
3. Taking our time making decisons
4. T visiting all evening, love her
5. My tribe
6. Seeing where I can change things, hopefully for the better
7. Incredible opportunities
8. Expanses of space
9. Options
10. You, writers and readers of wlg, I love you all.

Picking apples
Planning applesauce
And tomato
Moving forward
“Do unto others” stories from Peace Pilgrim
Praying for FIL
My daughters, who learn and grow and change daily
Stars
Understanding on new levels
Learning new things
Connecting with the source of things- what we buy, for one
A’s excited storytelling
“If you grow your own food, you don’t waste it. If you have to take responsibility for your own water supply, you’re probably not going to shit in it. I was speaking with a journalist recently about a report from the Department for Environment Food, and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)(19) which states that bread is now the number one food item that we waste, and he asked me why I thought that was so. I told him it is simply because we no longer have to knead and bake our own bread. If we had to put thirty minutes of love and elbow grease into it, we wouldn’t waste a slice.” From the Moneyless Manifesto which can be read online for free