grateful today

I sat.  I finally sat.  For an hour.  I liked it.

-Katy

On my morning walk with Happy, I got in touch with wanting to be in a body, maybe for the first time in my life.

This month, I “get to” see a chiropractor, a physical therapist, a massage therapist, and today – acupuncture!  Physical therapy felt like someone was using a giant wrench to threaten my hip into shape, but acupuncture felt like being washed in a warm bath of sunlight.

-Katy

It looks like another storm is headed this way but today I’m grateful for the clear sidewalk, the sun, and the blue sky.

Saturday we celebrated the life of a dear, dear friend who has moved on from this world. I am so thankful for having shared some time with her.

- Estyn

That bright, shiny, round thing up the in sky?!  I love it!!

Even more than I love Happy Lamp.

-Katy

Warm, cozy apartment.

Lavender oil.

Two unexpected new offers of work.

Jupiter, Venus and Uranus making it great to be me this month.

Baked potato.

-Katy

“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied;

Real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring.

Imaginary good is boring;

Real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”

-Simone Weil

-Katy

I can’t sleep because I’m so happy.

-Katy

This is just plain awesome and it makes me happy.

- Estyn

I’ve been re-reading some of Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson.

“A thousand ages in Thy sight
Are like an evening gone…..”

“No doubt that is true. Our dream of life will end as dreams do end, abruptly and completely, when the sun rises, when the light comes. And we will think, All that fear and all that grief were about nothing. But that cannot be true. I can’t believe we will forget our sorrows altogether. That would mean forgetting that we had lived, humanly speaking. Sorrow seems to me to be a great part of the substance of human life.”

-Katy

I’m so incredibly grateful today to be friends with Estyn. She is so great. Here are just a few things I love about her:

*She gives the best presents, ever, no contest.

*She is hilarious, she makes me laugh so hard.

*She has all kinds of interesting thoughts and understandings because she grew up in diverse places.

*She is the most talented artist I know, she has an eye for beauty *and* an ability to manifest it that is magical.

*She perfectly embodies my favorite three qualities in humans: smart, funny, and kind.

*She has lots of friends all over the world of all ages – we love Estyn!

-Katy