~ 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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– Warm applesauce made with the apples off our tree, with cloves and cinnamon, eaten with grassfed yogurt that I made in my solar oven. What a blissful, delicious snack!
– Apple fruit leather, made in the solar oven. Another blissful snack!
– Sitting outside in the backyard, wrapped in a robe, with fresh ginger tea at 5:00 one morning, as gentle rain began to fall. It was so quiet and peaceful. Then, going back to bed and sleeping till I was much more rested!
– The sight of the leaves changing color.
– Seeing more and more signs of autumn. More and more pumpkins appearing on doorsteps!
– Warm, totally gorgeous weather, followed by cold, cloudy weather where we were cozy inside. I love both!
– Amazing garden vegetable soup with soaked & solar-cooked brown rice. It was incredible. It had in it: tomatoes, garlic, onion, celery, green beans, parsley, potato, cabbage, thyme, rosemary, oregano, carrot, zucchini, broccoli, and brown rice. The only things not from the garden were the carrots and rice!
– Having really good energy a couple days this week and using it to catch up with all the backed up stuff that I’d been wanting to do. I was grateful for the timing, since I had so much to do to prepare for the first frost.
– Making the house more orderly, and finding places for all the plants we brought in before frost. An orderly, clean house really is so nice.
– Before bed, unwinding by candlelight. Turning off the electric lights, and writing my gratitude list by candlelight. What a lovely thing.
– Tea. Or just hot water for that matter! Having hot water any time I want, so I can make tea. A simple luxury.
– Being able to (mostly) clear as much space in my life as is needed right now, to hang really low and allow my body to do some major purging and healing.
– Being at this house. Having our own yard — our own territory. We love it here.
– A cold but really beautiful and refreshing bike ride to the health food store yesterday with F. I love our weekly rides to the store together. And the leaves have changed color so much since last weekend, and looked particularly beautiful against the cloudy sky. Last week was so hot and we rode in shorts and t-shirts, and this week it was 32° with snow flurries in the air!
– Laughing hard at a comedy show we were streaming from the BBC last night. We love their comedy shows, in particular Live at the Apollo, but occasionally others too. Genuine, uncontrolled laughter is really great medicine and makes everything feel lighter.
– Impromptu Friday night pizza dinner over at my parents’ new pad — what a fun thing that was!
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And what about you? What has been on your own gratitude list this past week?
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