Month: March 2012 (Page 1 of 3)

~ I’m once again joining Taryn over at Wooly Moss Roots in her Gratitude Sunday tradition. ~

Gratitude Sunday is a time to slow down and remember those thankful moments that graced our week. One reason I love keeping a daily gratitude journal is because it helps keep things in perspective for me. Each Sunday, I open my journal and share some of those moments with you here. If you’d like to join in, just leave a comment!

Gratitude is powerful energy. I love hearing others’ gratitudes!

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– The pretty weather.

– Being out in my garden, just me and the soil.

– My loved ones!!!

– Unlimited paper and pens, so that I can write as much as I want. Other eras in history may not have provided this luxury!

– Journaling to help ‘verbalize’ and make some sense of the heaviness and vague, non-specific sadness that pervaded the week. I’m starting to cogitate on this past year and am recognizing that being so gravely sick was much more… traumatic, I guess you could say, than I realized. I feel that this illness was an ‘exit point;’ I had to choose whether or not I wanted to continue to live. Finally I decided that I did. But the illness kept worsening, and there were many nights where I didn’t know if I’d still be alive in the morning — and I deeply feared that I’d made my decision too late. And when you’ve been holding things like that, and so much more, in the palm of your hand month after month… I dare say it affects you.

– Making time to do a mandala. I haven’t done one in a while; it was really satisfying.

– The wonderful scent of paperwhites while I go about my work in the kitchen!

– Cabbage and potatoes cooked in corned beef broth. So delicious!

– A spur-of-the-moment walk in a new neighborhood with my mom one beautiful day; it really helped turn the day around.

– How impossibly good food tastes when you’re starving!

– Good news, from whoever, and about whatever. Good news in general is so nice to hear, isn’t it!

– The kindest of words written to me and spoken to me this week from people I love.

– Lying outside in the sun.

– F. accomplishing a huge bike ride yesterday — and that the weather gods smiled graciously upon him. (And then laughing about how whereas most folks might pack energy bars for a snack, he packs a friggin’ steak! Hehe! I love it.)

– Surprise blossoms on the peach and plum trees that I grew from seed!

Peach blossom

A single blossom! Cute!

Plum blossoms

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What have you felt especially grateful for this past week?

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~ I’m once again joining Taryn over at Wooly Moss Roots in her Gratitude Sunday tradition. ~

Gratitude Sunday is a time to slow down and remember those thankful moments that graced our week. One reason I love keeping a daily gratitude journal is because it helps keep things in perspective for me. Each Sunday, I open my journal and share some of those moments with you here. If you’d like to join in, just leave a comment!

Gratitude is powerful energy. I love hearing others’ gratitudes!

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– Wonderful warm weather all this week.

– A hot shower and cozy pajamas after a hard and satisfying day’s work in the garden.

– Being outside a lot this week. That really fed my spirit.

– Tabbouleh! I’ve been eating tons of it. Seems like each week I have a new obsession with some type of food that I can’t get enough of! Luckily it’s always something light and nourishing that my stomach and body both really like. 🙂

– Toasted homemade sourdough bread, pasture butter, and homemade concord grape jam — seasoned with hunger. That is heaven!

– Remembering, again and again, to make adjustments so that I’m enjoying my life from day to day. Remembering to “take my pleasure seriously” as Charles & Ray Eames said (thanks to Aja for that quote!). Otherwise my too-sensitive psyche gets overwhelmed and I find life becoming too much — and if I don’t wanna be here, that’s no fun.

– Solar cookin’ again! Made oil-free “french fries” and quinoa this week.

– Seeing Venus and Jupiter travelling together through the sky.

– Giving my honey, F., a body rub; we had both had a really difficult day and it felt just as good to give a body rub as it hopefully felt to receive it.

– My immune system successfully fighting off a cold that I was sure I was coming down with. That was awesome!

– Hanging out one-on-one with my dad.

– Harvesting the first tender chives of the season.

– F. getting tomatoes and parsley to feed my tabbouleh fetish.

– The wonderful, wonderful loved ones around me!

– My tomato seedlings growing heartily in our kitchen window, right next to me as I sit at my computer…

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What gratitudes have graced your week?

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