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Month: March 2012 (Page 1 of 3)

In the garden this past week…

Boy it’s been a busy week! There are lots of things I’ve wanted to post for you but other things have been happening like moneymaking work, enjoying the gorgeous weather, lunch out with my Honey, visiting my mom and dad, gardening, and resting my still-healing body.

Anyway, here are some pictures of what’s happening in my garden — and also my parents’ yard, where my garden is located. Lots of stuff is popping up in the garden — turnips, lettuce, spinach, arugula, radishes, bok choi, and probably others by now, too.

Stomping leaves for the compost pile

Radishes in the Wall-o-Water

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Gratitude Sunday * March 25, 2012

~ 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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Happy Spring!

Happy Spring Equinox to each and every one of you out there!

The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.

—Harriet Ann Jacobs

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Gratitude Sunday * March 18, 2012

~ 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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