journeynow

1) Happiness and joy shared 2) Kindred spirits 3) Diversity 4) Beautiful morning swims 5) Cherries! 6) Tasty greens in my garden 7) Electric service restored early morning on Tuesday, after electricity outage on Monday night (shortly after my reply to tiredofvampires) 8 ) No files were lost or damaged everything shut off without warning Tuesday night. (Although I did lose my reply to 90_hour_sleep...) 9) An excellent drawing class 10) Wrapping up several interesting projects 11) Good times ahead!!! 12) The Farmers' Market 13) Time off 14) Being my own boss 15) Connections 16) Tape (cellophane tape, duct tape, packing tape) 17) My DVD player 18 ) Great conversations 19) My floor 20) My Mocha Pot 21) Kindness 22) Breathing!

Gratitude therapy...I like that, ToV and I like your reflections on Gratitude. (I'd Rep you for that, but must spread my Reps around more.) It is a remedy for that dark place, or a Life Line that's available for pulling oneself out of darkness. I've noticed that gratitude slows things down. It pauses my runaway train of thought. If I open to even a little gratitude it grows and feels so much bigger and fuller than that crazy train. It's subtle at first, and then it just IS. The more I open to gratitude the less time I have for stressful thinking. (I'm not cured, but there's less time or space or need for it.)

1) Maurice Sendak 2) James Taylor 3) Carl Larsson 4) Brave creative people who share their light

1) My breakfast this morning 2) Good digestion 3) My morning swim 4) Libraries 5) My drafting tables 6) My hands 7) Freecycle 8 ) Blue skies and soft breezes 9) The health and safety of my loved ones 10) Good communication

9) Embracing mistakes "The way we think about mistakes can play a pivotal role in how we experience life. We miss out on so much potential when we obsess about mistakes in all things. Understanding which things require perfection and when the freedom from worrying about mistakes can greatly enhance our lives is critical." —Melanie Rothschild (artist link removed)

1) Standing in my garden and feeling the soft warmth of the morning sun on my face 2) Fruit smoothies 3) Fresh fruit galore 4) My home 5) My veggie/flower garden 6) My small-grip light weight kayak paddle 7) Friends 8 ) The internet

1) Seasons 2) My front door 3) Almonds 4) TOTHG

5) Acceptance 6) eNAers who are open about their experiences and in the process help me understand more about mine

1) Learning from experience 2) Letting go 3) Understanding that everything is an experiment 4) Allowing imperfection

5) My cells. Every one of them working away unnoticed by me. So diligent!

That would be wonderful! The more the merrier!

1) Every day is a new day to learn about love 2) Strawberries 3) This moment 4) No moment has to be lived more than once

4) Moss and ferns and evergreens 5) Birdsong 6) My path through the woods 7) Hundreds (or thousands?) of acres of wild land around me 8 ) A puzzle resolved 9) Asking 10) Answers 11) A kind word

1) Having enough 2) Every stranger that has become a friend, and those that will in the future 3) This new day

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." — MELODY BEATTIE

1) Being pain-free 2) Rest 3) My drawing table 4) My community 5) Friendship

1) My pipewrench 2) A problem fixed, even if temporary 3) I did it! 4) This gentle morning 5) Gentle advice and encouragement 6) Humor shared 7) Going offline to focus elsewhere 8 ) Almond butter

1) Old friends 2) Connecting accross miles, cultures, time 3) A full day 4) Vanilla gelato

1) My bathtub, plumbing, clean water, deep well 2) Books 3) The web of people, past and present, that make my life possible 4) My mother (Thanks, Mom!) 5) Being a mother 6) Learning 7) Creativity, and the people that share theirs

6) Living in a northern climate with relatively cooler temperatures, plenty of trees for shade, mountains and valleys for breezes, and water for nourishment and play. Thank Goodness!!!

1) Love 2) Kindness 3) A budding friendship 4) My computer 5) Oatmeal

1) Naps 2) Dreams 3) Breath 4) My telephone

Hi Silver, I can't remember what I lost. Small things along the way, really. I used to feel an urgent need to find the thing I'd lost, that it was on MY shoulders to find it. I've come to be open to the idea that we can have help from unseen energies (beings? angels? Spirit? our higher self? friends and loved ones who've passed? our subconscious? or _____?______). Now, I decide that the lost thing will be found and ask for it to be shown to me, and then let go of searching. When it does show up I am touched by a feeling of kindness, and I say "thank you". If anything, it's made my life better. Lovely things you have in your life. I share your appreciation!

1) Time 2) Finding lost things 3) Perspective 4) Compassion 5) Accomplishments 6) My dad