6-17-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Watching two baby raccoons scuttle across the walking path
White wild yarrow thick in the fields
Plans to visit with dear friend Rhonda next month
How summertime means late dinners, lingering over drinks and good conversation, and thunderstorms
Leftover grilled shrimp with rice, mango, pineapple salsa, and a sprinkle of cilantro
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈☀️🧚
6-16-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Fig and honey goat cheese on toast
Spearing chunks of juicy watermelon on a fork
Granola flavors restocked for the week
Treats from Trader Joe’s
Driving over the bridge across Hoover Dam on the way home from work
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈☀️⛵️
6-15-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
When imagination becomes reality
A really slick haircut that shows off my earrings better
How the temperature drops 20 degrees right before a storm
And watching it roll across the sky from west to east with such majesty
Recalling family memories with Mike
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🐝☀️
6-14-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
A quiet morning of granola-making and enjoying the cool breeze
Creamy cashew spread from Portia’s cafe
Working outside before breakfast in a gentle rain
Lunch and encouragement with Joyce
Rosemary and garlic infused olive oil
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🐝🧈
6-13-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
If silver had a sound, it would be the call of the wood thrush I heard in the forest this morning
Fried egg and melty cheese on a toasted English muffin
Taking down the tall weeds in a dormant section of the garden
A litany of gratitude for everything around me as I mowed the walking paths yesterday afternoon
New sheets and a comforter for the bed in the guest room
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🧚🐝
6-12-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Taking time to marvel at the clouds
Root beer floats with Mike after dinner at Portia’s cafe, with good conversation between us
A cooler morning walk with more well-behaved mosquitoes
People who say please and thank you
Curiosity
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
6-11-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie (thank you, Calvin and Hobbes)
Buffalo chicken salad with fries on the side
Dinner with Peg and Rob, Peggy feeling better, Rob all retired and happy
Coming home to land that I love, who loves me back
Tucked into the comfort of a lush, green landscape after a full work day
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🏕📚🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈☀️🥰
6-8-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Making it through today’s health care gauntlet with a smile
Experiencing a new European tooth-cleaning method at my dentist
Sharpening my critical thinking skills for work
The lunch waiting for me in my truck, on ice
Fewer mosquitoes on the morning walk
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈☀️🐝
6-7-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Clear walking trails after yesterday’s storms
A lone snapping turtle come to visit out back by the old maple tree
Dewdrop-adorned spiderwebs suspended between the tips of young field grass seed heads
Family coming together later today for food, stories and presence
Mulberries hanging thick on the branches
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈⛈️
6-6-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Finishing up a big outside project before breakfast and just after the storm
Jokes about eggs
Amish buttermilk cookies
A scrambled egg, goat cheese and bacon sandwich on an everything bagel
When good is good enough
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🎶
6-5-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
How the grass always looks its best the day you cut it
Needing more peppermints for my neighbor’s goats
Local history
Cherry tomatoes
Hard boiled eggs and strawberries for breakfast, with chocolate earl gray tea
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🍷
6-4-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
The gift of cautious optimism
Joanna’s kindness, undivided attention, and encouragement
A good breakfast and lunch packed for work
Treating myself to an organic smoothie later this afternoon
Seeing how my brother-in-law is enjoying the first days of retirement
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🏖️
6-3-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Having a kind and thoughtful brother
Recovering more quickly and fully from triggers
When dreams become plans that become reality
How cute Tink sounds when she meows
Standing in the morning sun waiting in the bus, feeling lucky and ever so slightly hopeful
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🥰🐈
6-2-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Taking the home office outside underneath the mulberry trees yesterday
When dinner in is better than dinner out
Tending to matters of the heart today, gently and with compassion
Strawberry rhubarb crisp for breakfast
Orchard orioles, an orange and black streak across the blue skies
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🐝🥰
6-1-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Feeling hugged and wrapped by the young maple grove near the woods
7 acres cut in just under 2 hours
Peanut butter in my morning oats
Rotisserie chicken with garlic scapes, red onion, and carrots in marinara sauce over rotini
Looking forward to world EQ day
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🐝
5-31-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Being in the woods before the sun breaks over the horizon, then watching as it filters through the trees so peacefully
Fresh local strawberries in my morning oats
Lightening the load in the old goat barn
A list of great house and land projects that, when finished, will give me a good shot of dopamine
The aroma of maple pecan granola filling the house
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈☀️✨🐝
5-30-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
The wood thrush’s call echoing off the thick green leaves of the forest canopy
Dreaming new dreams
Dinner and scheming with Joe, Marie, and Mike
Taking my bookbinding to the next level
Browsing indie bookstores
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🐦⬛🎶☀️
