~ 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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Hi Lindsey!!
Finally getting around to my computer and so happy to hear from you! I’ve been thinking about you lately and thinking I need to e-mail you.
Pen and paper.. so lucky to have that abundance! One thing I like about “nowadays” too. 🙂
I felt sadness this week too and have been processing it.
…What you’ve gone through (and are going through still) has been HUGE! I’m so glad you are journaling about it. I’ve admired you so much, I hope you know that. And you are so courageously honest and I love that.
I know what you mean about exit points. I’ve experienced some of those, though none recently. I’m glad you decided to stay (I for one am deeply grateful to have you here!) but I know it’s pushed you to your farthest limits when the physical pain has made it nearly unbearable sometimes. Has the pain been lessening any lately since the diagnosis and antibiotics? I’ve been hoping it would.
Food does test so incredibly when you’re starving! 🙂
Love good news. Some days with all the opposite around, I want a whole lot more of good news!
I love that your hubby brought along a steak! Sounds like my kind of bike ride!! haha.
Those blossoms are so beautiful.
Lots of Love to you today Lindsey!
You have a friend in Oregon who thinks the world of you!
Taryn
You are so sweet Taryn; I need to email ya!
Love,
Lindsey
Amazing and beautiful Lindsey…I love your gratitudes. I know exactly why you appreciate each one.
Being as ill as you have been is very traumatic…it takes its toll and is bound to leave you feeling like this sometimes.
Sending you much, much love…would like to give you a hug.x
You are so sweet and understanding Trish!! I’ll accept a cyberhug! 🙂 🙂
Love to you,
Lindsey
I could only muster tears at reading this gratitude list–I am so grateful for YOU and for your decision to push through this horrible illness. I love that you are finally healing. MUCH Love to you. <3<3
Snowpeas – awww thank you!!!!!! It feels so good to be healing instead of worsening, let me tell you!
MUCH MUCH LOVE TO YOU!