mettagratitude

3/11/13  Gratitude Journal

I am grateful for a warm day and a chance to go out at lunch to enjoy it.  I am grateful for my wonderful alums who are now dentists who gave a great presentation in my topics in dentistry class today.  I am grateful for a new friend I met at a reading from her book last Wednesday.

3/10/13 Gratitude Journal

I am grateful for a beautiful sunny day when I could add a few rocks to the labyrinth, pull a bunch of weeds, eat tangerines and kumquats off my trees, plant some iris from mom’s garden, and not get her taxes done as planned. 

3/9/13  Gratitude Journal

I am grateful I was able to take a day to get my taxes organized.

3/8/13 Gratitude Journal

I am grateful for the beautiful show of sunshine, clouds, and rain at SDSU today.  I am grateful for the brilliant students who displayed their research today and may someday cure the diseases of our world (including war, hatred and lack of compassion).  I am grateful for a weekend to catch up.

3/7/13 Gratitude Journal

I am grateful for my first Osher class on writing memoir and the lovely people I met.  I am grateful for a dinner of roasted root veggies including a giant beet from the garden that was still good.  I am grateful for videos on facebook so I can see my youngest grandkid walk.

3/6/13 Gratitude Journal

I am grateful for the opportunity to listen to a wonderful author (Sallie Lowenstein) read from her work.  I am grateful I can sleep in tomorrow before doing my memoir homework at the last minute as I tell my students not to do! I am grateful that I had enough energy to go to the reading tonight.

3/5/13 Gratitude Journal

I am grateful for friends on Facebook, new and old, who let me know I am not alone in my love of gardens, and trees, and labyrinths, and who care about our world and our food supply and human rights and ending violence.  Before Facebook, it sometimes felt like everyone had gone to sleep.  (Of course, I realize FB can be a form of sleep, too.)

3/4/13 Gratitude Journal

I am grateful for another day of feeling a little bit better.

3/3/13 Gratitude Journal…

I am grateful for a lovely day with my late mother’s dance group friends.  I am grateful that my health seems to be a little better each day.

3-2-13 Gratitude Journal

I am grateful for a little time to garden before heading up to Ramona to mom’s.  I am grateful for my brother and his wife, Yumiko, for all the cleanup and sorting they are doing at mom’s.  I am grateful for a wonderful house concert at Carol Branch’s with Coco and Lafe and Dennis Caplinger even though I lost it and started crying during Coco’s song about missing her guy at Border’s bookstore. I am grateful for a beautiful spring-like day with jasmine and narcissus perfuming the yard.