5-3-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
A day of retreat with my deeply wonderful work team
How good it feels to be home on a rainy Saturday morning in May, remembering what it was like to be setting up for the farmers market in years past
Crafting with a new friend later this afternoon at the local library
Patrick’s integrity and commitment to his own self-awareness
Scrambled eggs, toast and stewed heirloom tomatoes for breakfast
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
5-2-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Taking a virtual meeting in my car while the rain poured down and the thunder rumbled
Steamed ginger ahi tuna with caramelized kimchi, salty cucumbers, baked sweet potato and millet ramen noodles
Patrick’s hard work in the garden, solarizing the grass
New-to-me denim capris that fit like a dream
Cutting back and rooting out invasive plants around the chicken coops
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
5-1-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Watching the storm cross the sky while I wait for the bus
The peace that comes from loving and living simply
Leaving a clean kitchen and a fresh batch of overnight oats for Patrick to find when he wakes up
When the morning commute is more open fields and no billboards
What a kind word can do
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
4-30-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Getting to pray for dear friends who are struggling
The three catbirds who were checking me out on the walking path this morning
A little bit of gardening at first light
Planting an entire raised bed with five different kinds of radishes
Whatever “glue” is holding us together right now
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
4-29-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
A refreshing shower after the morning walk
Trying a new recipe for overnight oats with bananas, cocoa and chia seeds
Cookout season
Also trying a new recipe for cucumber kimchi
The people who come along with me in my thoughts throughout the day
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
4-28-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Mulching two of the raised beds before sunrise and the morning walk
Scoring the denim we wanted at a Westerville thrift store
Time to wonder
Telling stories from Sundances past
The first nettles harvest of the season
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
4-27-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Rebecca and Sarah’s joy from repurposing two of our three rabbit hutches
Patrick’s joy as he trimmed the trees along the driveway and walking path using our new mini chainsaw pruner
A simple feast of vegetables, dips and homemade cookies
Sane voices amidst the madness
Another day to listen to the land
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
4-26-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
How oatmeal holds its heat to melt the butter and maple syrup together
The look on Jinxy’s face when I move him off my spot on the couch
Rediscovering kefir
Setting my heart in a good place before trimming back the brambles
Making dinner for Patrick when he’s too tired
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
4-25-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
The tangy scent of the woods in early spring
Stepping back to recalibrate an ongoing challenge, and then let it go
Getting to clock out a little earlier today
Time in the studio
When nature waters the garden
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦🌻☮️🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
4-24-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Celebrating good people who are making a real difference in the lives of others
Spending less time in the digital world
Patrick’s broccoli and red potato quiche, with onions and cheddar
The power of breakthroughs
Getting out the Birkenstocks for the first time this season
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
4-23-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
The first after-work mower time of the season
A pre-dawn morning walk to set the tone for the day
Learning visible mending and sashiko stitching at the Granville Center for the Arts
Anticipating a good nettles and wild garlic mustard crop this spring
When a light salad is all you need for dinner
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
4-22-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Deer in the eastern field watching me hang laundry before dawn
Yesterday’s downpour and dramatic winds
Feeling good about my food choices (and that I even have food choices)
Understanding that grief is the price we pay for loving
A day to travel to places in the state I’ve not visited yet
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
4-20-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Walking with no agenda
Ham and cheddar in the scrambled eggs
Hope rising
Sitting next to Patrick on the porch yesterday morning, putting seeds into soil so we can eat
Easy mango ice cream
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
4-19-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Choosing what’s right, knowing it won’t always be easy
Setting up the next round of indoor garden starts supplies
The first morning walk of the year without a jacket
How the food at Portia’s Cafe is always really good
Taking steps toward more freedom
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
4-18-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
How trying not to step on the violets and spring beauties on the morning walk is more of a dance
A day off with Patrick and the land and the garden
How adding cheese to scrambled eggs helps them hold their heat longer
Senator Chris Van Wallen
Winning the first round with a bramble strangling a maple sapling
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
4-17-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Quick reflexes on the road this morning when an oncoming car went left of center
Shaking off the adrenaline
Getting to reassure, celebrate and congratulate coworkers on their excellent success working with their volunteers
How stargazing is quite relaxing just before going to bed
Laughing with yawning gas station clerk just before his shift ended
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
4-16-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
A well-timed departure this morning, getting all my chores done before leaving the house, and still having time to fill the gas tank before catching the bus (whew)
The reassurance of good people working hard for justice
Feta cheese and pumpkin seeds on my salad for lunch
Tink being extra cuddly
The chance to return a favor
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
4-15-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
A record-breaking NINE-bunny morning walk !!
Not adding to someone’s troubles
The way we pray, the way we try to live
Walking through a strong and telling wind, feeling strengthened and cleansed
When the math works
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
4-14-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Time on the bench overlooking the meadow just as the sun is rising
Sesame sake grilled tuna steaks with toasted sweet potatoes and salad
Setting my feet to the day’s journey, my shoulders to the day’s work
Sweet potato chickpea cookies that turned out great
Trying out my new electric chainsaw garden pruner with Patrick
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈