January 2010

1. The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron – about accessing your creative energies! 2. any number that is your lucky number (24) 3. children’s laughter unleashed on the world 4. the easiness of being with a good friend 5. glitter — anywhere, any time 6. so many people gathering $$ for Haiti 7. gratitude lists [...]

1. Little notebooks that collect random thoughts, quotes, shopping lists and good things. 2. Sisters that stand beside you even as you whirl around in an emotional tornado. 3. Leisurely Saturday mornings covered up by flannel sheets and surrounded by feather pillows. 4. The muffled sound of teenaged girls squealing with dlight behind a closed [...]

1. handmade paper 2. “Joy is not in things, it is in us.” 3. finding a great quotation 4. jade plants 5. flip flops, especially when they sound like flip flops 6. rubber duckies 7. reading a book to a child 8. Great Blue Herons 9. the Goodyear Blimp 10. when someone calls just to [...]

1. A beautiful sunrise 2. Soulfull running 3. Deliberation 4. Being true 5. Technology 6. Reading a good book while curled up under a blanket 7. Peace 8. Being content with what you have instead of wanting more 9. Being positive even while surrounded by negativity 10. Being focused

1. Lots of wood for woodstove this weekend. 2. Pinky pinky sunset on the way home yesterday. 3. Snow event happening on the weekend. 4. Finally finding a way to get my main character wayback into the past. 5. Doodling. 6. Good music lyrics… today it’s Garth Brooks… “Choose to chance the rapids/dare to dance [...]

1. The upright bass 2. Charles Mingus (My favorite bass player. His album Mingus Ah Um is intoxicating.) 3. Smoky, dingy, moody jazz clubs with votives on the tables 4. You Grow Girl which is making me itch for spring 5. Wormy chestnut 6. The art of Bekah Ash (I have a print of hers [...]

Hey Gratitude Growers- Steve Chandler, a man I highly admire and respect, creator of Club Fearless, author of “Shift your Mind: Shift the World“, “100 Ways To Motivate Yourself” and “The Woman Who Attracted Money” (three books of his I’ve read and recommend highly) has emailed his good list! I’m including his opening to direct [...]

Both children are well after two days of high fevers. Good music on Pandora. Today’s feature station- The Beatles! Finishing the taxes at work. Grits and bacon My older daughter winning first place in a Daughters of the American Revolution short story contest. My black and white composition book journal Realizing that I CAN make [...]

1.Being commended and genuinely valued, simply for being who you are.  That is THE best.  Thank you so very much, my fellow Gratitude Growers. *my best smile* 2.Being awarded surprise scholarship money 3.Weeping willow trees 4.Outrageous beards 5.The way snow sparkles 6.Hospice 7.Punching balloons (I think they’re actually called “punch balls”- SO fun!) 8.Lavender 9.Changing [...]