3-19-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Strawberry scented body wash
A better night’s sleep with the window open
The sanity-saving outcomes of making art
Learning about loving detachment
Mini chicken tacos from Trader Joe’s
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🐝
3-17-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
The warmth of a good working furnace, soft blankets, and four clingy kitties
Word games to start the day
A chance to use my writing skills to thank someone who means everything to me
Cherished memories that are forever part of my spirit
Decisions that help me sleep at night
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈💨🐜
3-16-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
A big land project done and done, thanks to Katie and Luke’s energy, kindness, and determination
Sitting on the curvy tree with Katie and Luke, taking in the beauty of a woods getting dressed for spring
Fried cheese curds and a garden salad from Bickerdyke Table & Tap
Gluten free cookies from a local bake sale
Tyler’s skill and patience
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈💨🌧️
3-15-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
A late afternoon burst of energy
Using my new corner-rounding punch on my book promo postcards
Family and laughter, excellent food and service at Pancho’s Tacos
Making plans for my niece to give me a henna tattoo
A day outside in the wind and sun with Katie and Luke
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈💨🐜
3-14-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Sitting perfectly still on the front porch while the wind roared and blew all around me
This daily, almost hourly, gratitude practice
Making time to read
Help from friends with land projects
A day with family I love so terribly much
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈💨🌬️
3-13-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Dinner later with Marie and Joe
A pretty ride back home after driving into Columbus for a training
Early dinner, lovely evening walk, peaceful sleep, colorful dreams
Computers that do as they’re told
A single star surrounded by pre-dawn wisps of clouds
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🐜✨🐝
3-12-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Rebecca’s help with the chickens, so selfless and cheerful
Finally scheduling a long-anticipated appointment
The coziness of the living room with the heat cranked up a notch
Settling in with a new EQ book
Ideas for new mini journals
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🫂
3-11-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
The best siblings ever—Mike, Peggy, and Janie
Turning points in difficult times
Packing myself a lunch to look forward to
Striking up conversations with strangers in line to pay their tab at the local diner
Realizing that the depth of my grief is an accurate gauge for my capacity to love
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🫂
3-10-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Dinner and kindness with Christin
Doing my yoga and morning exercises on the front porch in the dark
All the things our thumbs allow us to do every day
How prayer and meditation reset a frantic heart and settle a busy mind
A really good fried egg sammich with havarti cheese
What are you grateful for today?☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈✨🐝
3-9-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Good old fashioned community networking, meeting new friends, volunteering, planning events
Floors swept and laundry hung by the light of a waning moon
Supporting local businesses
How versatile zucchini is in recipes
Giving my eyes a rest
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈✨💐
3-8-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
How morning walks reset my thought patterns and help me stay rooted in the present moment
Freeing trees of brambles and grape vines, a spring ritual for 27 years now
An epically productive morning yesterday, that included putting a second coat of paint on the upstairs office room, hanging and bringing in laundry, picking up chicken feed and fresh bedding for the coop, taking out the trash and picking up the mail at the P.O. Box
An abundance of apples to eat and share with the deer and the chickens
Buckeye candy for breakfast
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈✨🐝
3-6-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
An early start on a big project
Nina at The Mr Peanut shop downtown, packing up my order of Buckeyes, ranch-roasted peanuts, and dark chocolate salted caramels
Mindfully celebrating the delicious plate of enchiladas in front of me at dinner last night—thanks, Pancho’s Tacos!
Yet another slow walk in the dense morning fog
Getting an unpleasant task out of the way last night so I could enjoy my day offf today
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🌏
3-5-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Catching an earlier bus unexpectedly
The sound of the rain and the truck’s windshield wipers
Writing messages in the condensation on the bus stop shelter plexiglass
A local restaurant reopening after an injustice
Leftover mushroom, broccoli, and red onion quiche for breakfast
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🐈⬛🏳️🌈🌍
3-4-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Voices crying out for peace, justice, mercy
When things go better than I thought they would
A new and larger Buddha Board to use for my book illustrations
The kitties wanting to spend more time outside
Plans to get new wipers for the truck this weekend
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🌎🕊️
3-3-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Kitties who are mostly fun, entertaining, and sweet
Finishing another Charley Harper puzzle, this one with birds and butterflies in it
Working on the illustrations for my next book
Shitake mushroom crisps
A skilled driver, backing his flatbed truck all the way down our quarter mile driveway to pick up the mower for it’s spring maintenance tune up
What are are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈✨🐝
3-2-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
The meditative art of spackling and prepping a room for painting
A day filled with time in the studio, time outside, time resting and reflecting
The view from the ridge as we inch closer to spring
A four-day work week
Slimming down, in so many ways
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈💐
3-1-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Making chocolate donuts before breakfast
The rewards of self-sufficiency
More downsizing, more cleaning, less stuff and less dust
Picking up seed pods from the Old Man sycamore tree down by the creek
A melty, creamy havarti cheese for my tuna wrap
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🧀
2-28-2026
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
The chicken coop, cleaned out, re-fluffed and the girls happily laying eggs in fresh bedding
Dinner and reconnecting with Rob and Elizabeth at Black Dog Tavern
The memories of walking the land in the morning that will forever be a part of me
Chasing the right words for a poem or story
How the sky pulls up the sun
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈☀️