All posts by Lucy Anne

Gratitude
  1.  Unexpected messages that bring a smile
  2.  Self-control
  3.  Good advice delivered with love
  4.  Greens ready to go
  5.  Functional olfactory system, so many nice scents
  6.  Imagining Carol’s jungle of flowers
  7.  Database access
  8.  Fun of creating a themed playlist
  9.  Fresh haircut
  10.  Apron serving as a covert adult-bib and saving my top

Gratitude
  1.  Patience
  2.  Sunny outlooks
  3.  Meditative aspects of putting together a jigsaw puzzle
  4.  Taking responsibility for my own experience
  5.  Sewing
  6.  Small encouragements from multiple people and places
  7.  Staying the course
  8.  Learning about razzle-dazzle ships
  9.  Improvising when you’re stuck
  10.  “Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”   ~Thich Nhat Hahn

Gratitude
  1.  Amusing adventures of my niece and nephew
  2.  Learning new techniques
  3.  Surviving an ill-advised walk in blistering heat
  4.  Fresh figs as a reward
  5.  Showering whenever I want, what a luxury
  6.  Courage

Gratitude
  1.  Breath
  2.  Being on time
  3.  Catching a mistake in time to fix it
  4.  Someone unafraid to speak candidly about loaded topics
  5.  Good health insurance and great providers
  6.  Hugging like you mean it
  7.  Sis-in-law is holding out
  8.  Text from my sweet brother
  9.  Dad’s dorky humor
  10.  Moving past a learning curve

Gratitude
  1.  WLG community
  2.  Small connections
  3.  Finding something better than what you were planning
  4.  Money for groceries
  5.  Receiving an orchid
  6.  Early  morning sunshine
  7.  The mail woman
  8.  Working parts
  9.  Clean water
  10.  Necessary equipment for the job

Gratitude
  1. Recognizing resistance
  2. Patience with myself
  3.  Sunscreen
  4.  Cruise control
  5.  Sharing the excitement of a sporting event
  6.  Lessons my dad taught me- deliberate and not
  7.  Running errands by foot
  8.  Friendly banter with those you know so well
  9.  Deepening richness of relationships as I have grown into adult-child and adult-grandchild
  10.  Sublime feeling of cooling off/down after being sweaty and winded

Gratitude
  1. Smiling
  2.  The man who gave us his parking spot and his full-day parking ticket
  3.  Having the opportunity to pay it forward
  4.  Walking in a postcard scene
  5.  Gambling on restaurants and coming out 2 for 2
  6.  Feeling healthy
  7.  Steering my mind right
  8.  Stellar service
  9.  New adventures in old familiar places
  10.  Moving onward

Gratitude

1.  Having company for a routine that you normally do alone

2. Remembering to “hit the reset button” on a bad start

3. Safe travel

4. Discovering a new favorite place

5. Squeezing  sand on the beach

6. Naps

7. Cool charge in the air when fog visibly rolls in

8. After-shower feeling

9. Good timing

10. Making a long weekend

Grateful

Gratitude
  1.  Teamwork
  2.  Getting outside yourself
  3.  When the underdog wins
  4.  Discovering something cool and unexpected
  5.  Weekend getaways
  6.  Meals that make you feel nourished
  7.  Sleeping in
  8.  Being prepared
  9.  Good timing
  10.  Restoring balance