Archive for June, 2009
gratituesday June 30
I’m grateful for chilly mornings. For (is it global warming?) this unusually cool weather.
I’m grateful for the way I have learned to treat people. For manners. For consideration. For generosity.
I’m grateful for friends and loved ones in my life.
I’m grateful — still — for the visit with my daughter on Sunday.
I’m grateful to be weaned ...Read more.
gratitude monday 6/29
I am so grateful for helpful Twitterers. Really. I needed to know how to add sharing to this blog and I asked someone and now it’s done. If a reader (you?) clicks on the Comments link, you will find a button for sharing in Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Del.icious, Google…
So share! Share any post that motivates ...Read more.
gratitude thursday 6/25
I’ve been finding it hard to show up to my commitment to gratitude.
Probably because I’ve been feeling challenged in so many areas of life recently.
Back to basics, with a smile on my face.
I am grateful for life. I am grateful to be alive, healthy, fit, clean and sober.
I am grateful for gratitude practice, even though ...Read more.
gratitude monday 6/22
Remembered earlier that today marks the 40th anniversary of my first wedding. Gulp. How did that happen? I was a child bride, in my teens. It was so long ago.
I am still full of joy from the solstice weekend. Three rituals.
Friday night: My first time high-priestessing a ritual. It went well, I am told. I ...Read more.
gratitude thursday 6/18
Slowly slowly slowly the sewage-y smell is receding from my bathroom. As is the horror-filled memory of the overflow. Wins as the most disgusting day of my life and let it be always so. May I never have a more disgusting experience.
I am so grateful for my daughter making her way in the world. She’s ...Read more.
gratituesday 6/16
Something I was taught when I was a young member of a spiritual cult turns out to be a crock of shit. I was taught that by age 33 you will have experienced every feeling you will ever feel; after that age it’s all repeats. I can tell you today that that is totally not ...Read more.
gratitude monday 6/15
Dreams and memories of Lansman’s and the Main House. I bet I’m one of a very very very small group of people who remember that building. I must have been nine or ten—eleven tops—when it burned down. I remember it vividly. My Grandma Mary (my dad’s mother) stayed there. It was (in my memory) a ...Read more.
gratitude friday 6/12
I’m so grateful for the loving energy offered to me yesterday post-share at an AA meeting. My second of the day.
I’m grateful that I can talk about what’s going on, even when the craving to use strikes. Better than talking about it after I’ve gotten loaded, huh?
I’m clean and sober today, still, and for that ...Read more.
gratitude wednesday 6/10
Yes, I’m grateful. Even when it’s hard.
I’m grateful that I know that I have given up the right to suicide. And that I know I know I know that things will only get worse if I start using drugs again. I know this. So I find myself doing long internet searches about life in Ireland. ...Read more.
gratitude monday 6/8
Gratitude whispers, thrums through my pulse, my cells. I awaken in my bed on a cool and gray morning, listening to morning humor on the radio.
I’m grateful for a magical, restful, busy, wonderful weekend.
Dinner with my sister Friday night, and then the full moon ritual. My sister joined in for the first time. A room ...Read more.
