My lovely friend Taryn over at Wooly Moss Roots has started a new tradition — Gratitude Sunday. Sunday’s a quiet and contemplative day, and a good day to share what we’ve been grateful for over the past week.
Each night I write in my gratitude journal at least 3 things that I’m grateful for that day, though the list is often much longer. I love this quiet ritual, and I also love going back through past years’ journals to see what I was doing “this day six years ago.”
So feel free to participate! What are you grateful for? Leave a comment!
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Here’s what I’ve been grateful for this past week:
– An amazing almost-3″ of rain that we desperately needed.
– A string of misty, cool, cloudy, wet, green days this week! Love them!
– A mug of hot tea on a chilly, rainy night.
– Waking up to an incredible dawn chorus of birds this morning, before the city noise began.
– Space heater to press my feet against.
– Spending time in my garden on a priceless glorious evening.
– Taking a break from garden work to eat watermelon with my neighbor on her lovely back porch. She’s 81 (acts like 61!) and is like a grandmother to me. We have a special bond. 🙂
– A magical bike ride at dusk.
– The garden’s growing so well!
– Eating salads where every single thing is homegrown.
– Cool spring air. Our apartment is comfortable and not yet too hot. I’m savoring it!
– Doing some contract work for my former employer; it feels good to use my knowledge and “expertise” again, and we both benefit — they get good work done by someone who knows the ropes of the place, and I get to earn some side money.
– Finishing a big, brain-frying project for them that I worked on all week; it seemed like it would never end, and it involved aggravating sentences like: The company will integrate event escalation procedures to identify incidents that require declaration of an incident. And… All data encryption keys must be stored encrypted and in a secure location. Key-encrypting keys must be stored separate from data-encrypting keys within applicable applications. But it’s done! It ended, I’m happy with how it turned out, and I sent it off tonight. That feels good!
– Not working a daily 9-5 job — just doing contract work from home.
– Got 3 loads of laundry done this weekend.
– Having fresh lilacs and lily-of-the-valley in vases around the house, and smelling them as I pass by.
– Eating a lime-juice popsicle. It tasted so good!
– A quiet, subdued week. A good week.
