grateful today

It’s a warm rain.

I’ve stepped off the Victim-Rescuer-Persecutor triangle.  No thank you.

Home fries.

Happy came back from her morning escape happy and tired and unharmed.

Re-reading The Secret Garden.

-Katy

The mountain of snow shoved up from the driveway over the winter has melted through its stages of gray dreariness down to a scattering of gravel. There are signs of green!!

Spinach that I planted too late in the fall is growing happily now.

I didn’t think the strawberries in the plant pot would survive, but hey!

The Rugosa Roses have sprouted growth in the last two days.

Daffodils were already growing under the snow, faster now that it’s gone.

I love green.

- Estyn

Paid sick day.

Clementines.

Crocuses.

The way Happy sits on her butt like a human, not on her haunches.

Bed. I love my bed.

Cocoa butter.

Rose tea.

I have everything I need, and many things I want.

-Katy

A quiet day at work.

My Susan Miller horoscope affirms my experience of reality, which is comforting.

Get to see Les Miserables this weekend! I do love me some revolutionary Broadway.

Falafel.

I can do more push-ups now than ever in my life.

I’m grateful I’m not doing push-ups right now.

I am sometimes interested these days in comforting rather than being comforted, in understanding rather than being understood.  More than I’ve ever been.  Less than I hope to be in the future!

-Katy

I took a one week leave of absence from listening to the news recently, after the new war caused my brain to snap, crying and ranting uselessly at D. for 30 minutes and making us both miserable.

Ahhh…. sweet freedom. Today I choose to remember that news media derails my ability to notice and be grateful.  I can still pray and hope and donate and organize and breathe, but I can’t seem to rant and be grateful.

I also enjoyed this article on Salon about the gentle benefits of not voicing every negative opinion or sarcastic thought that comes into my brain. Remember when the temple told us to not say anything about anyone who wasn’t in the room with us, positive or negative? Hah!

-Katy

My photo software is fighting me so I am at this time unable to share with you an image of intense cuteness. My four kitties snuggling.

Two is good. Three is better. Four together is the snuggling holy grail that sends me running for my camera to share the joy.

I will post said picture as soon as technology allows…

- Estyn

4/6/11: Here’s the pic.

Hilarious depiction of the emotional roller coaster.

Also? I would pay a million dollars for the speed of this infant’s emotional resilience.

-Katy

I heard a woodpecker and a frog.

-Katy

I got gluten-ed at a restaurant last night.  The reason this is on my gratitude list is that I used to feel this lousy physically all the time, and now – never.

This morning I saw geese heading north.  Welcome back geese!

“You do not have to be good.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.” (Mary Oliver)

-Katy

Happy ran away (chasing deer) but then she came back.

D. drove away, but Saturday he will come back.

-Katy