grateful today

apples

katy — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:23:23 +0000

Happy likes to forage for crab apples this time of year. She likes to enjoy them with a little palate cleanser of deer poop. But when she’s tired out, she lets me hand feed her.

-Katy

new places

estyn — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:18:11 +0000

I went somewhere new last night, and had a good time!

It’s important for me to keep trying new things, and going new places — even if it’s just taking a different road home — otherwise I get stuck with thinking that what I already know is the only option, and that’s a bleak outlook, my friends.

May there be more new places, new people, and new experiences.
Often.

- Estyn

food

katy — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:15:41 +0000

I love food. I just had the greatest dinner – eggs with onions and basil, cucumbers, heirloom tomatoes. For the first time this year, I have a CSA membership in a farm that will provide organic vegetables all winter through. I’m so grateful that other people want to study and grow delicious food for me.

-Katy

dogs

katy — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 03:31:08 +0000

This quote from Pack of Two by Caroline Knapp made me laugh out loud.

“Living with a dog is like being followed around 24 hours a day by a mute psychoanalyst. Feelings float up from inside and attach themselves to the dog, who will not question their validity, or hold up your behavior to scrutiny, or challenge your perceptions.”

-Katy

cats

estyn — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:13:29 +0000

It’s helpful having cats around when the weather is gray. Little furry mood lifters.

- Estyn

‘the box’

estyn — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:14:49 +0000

M just sent me this animation, which I had to watch twice right away.

Simon the animator must have been spying at my house because this is an exact record of the daily goings on. Shred for shred.

- Estyn

Pema Chodron

katy — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 01:33:04 +0000

I’m grateful for Pema Chodron’s unwavering honesty. Today, she makes me laugh.

“We are fundamentally alone, and there is nothing anywhere to hold on to. Moreover, this is not a problem.”

-Katy

baggage

katy — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:54:15 +0000

I have repetitive anxiety dreams that I’m late, because I’m packing, and I don’t have it together enough to leave yet. But last night I dreamt that I was just giving it all away and headed out the door.

It was so freeing. Maybe another indication that I may be returning to meditation soon.

-Katy

the harvest

estyn — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 21:01:29 +0000

It feels like the end of summer. On the day I brought in the first big, ripe tomatoes, I found an orange leaf on the ground, announcing autumn around the corner.

But for now abundance is the name of the game. The cucumbers seem to go from two to twelve inches overnight. I’ve made five quarts of refrigerator pickles and four pints of cucumber relish, and I doubt we’re done.

It’s a good kind of overwhelm though, all this plenty. I’m loving stepping out to pick part of dinner. And I’m so grateful for the summer we’ve had, so different from last year’s washout.

- Estyn

gratitude during loss

katy — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:29:03 +0000

Several people I’m close to have lost family members recently. Terrible, pointless, too young deaths.

But it’s still summer.

And many of us are still alive.

Today I’m counting all my dear ones who are still around.

-Katy