5-24-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
The first of three Gathering sessions this afternoon with some truly remarkable women
When the laundry hamper is empty
An oriole at the window, telling me the feeder cups need refilled
Worries and concerns evaporating the minute I step outside
Biting into a frozen blueberry in a mouthful of hot oats
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
5-22-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Drifting off to sleep in a gentle rain
Melissa’s kindness
Soup and grilled cheese with roasted beets and carrots on the side
Getting close to the first radish harvest of the season—five varieties!
A job that puts me in front of so many different people
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
5-21-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
A 3am thunderstorm with Tink cuddling close
Butter on a toasted English muffin
The great job Patrick did cleaning the fridge and reorganizing all the food
Completing my open enrollment before the deadline
Music that insists we dance
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
5-20-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Early morning mulching and gardening beneath a cottony gray sky
Popcorn chicken salad bowls for dinner
All the birds I don’t know yet
Keeping on with an English paper piecing project
Teaching myself how to clip the chickens’ wings
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
5-19-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
A promising wild raspberry harvest this year
Spending most of the day in the garden with Patrick, planting, tidying up the radishes and potatoes
Getting the meadow cut before dinner
How resilience and creativity work together
Planning day trips to state parks in Ohio
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
5-18-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Our new Buff Orpington egg layers, sweet little caramel clouds of fluff, all tucked into their coop
The return of the orioles, dressed in their finest orange and black tuxedos
Productive puttering in the garden
Chia seeds, blueberries and pecans in the oats today
Approaching the day as an unfolding of experiences rather than a list of things to do
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
5-17-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Getting the coop ready for ten new egg layers
A mango citrus blueberry smoothie with Cake seasoning from Penzey’s (thanks, honey)
Early morning kitten mania that turns the living room and upstairs hallway into their own little pinball game
Falling asleep to a sweet spring thunderstorm
Time with my sister, Janie, getting a haircut, getting caught up on each other’s news
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
5-16-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
The simple satisfaction of hand-hemming a pair of pants that I’ll wear to work today
Plans to paint with Patrick in the woods
Leaving an apple on one of the deer trails
Warmer and brighter days
A most delightful mango citrus sauce for last night’s steamed carrots
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
5-15-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Realizing that I don’t dance nearly as much as I could, and, starting today, doing something about it
Grilled flatiron steak with twice-baked potatoes and chopped salad with feta
Howard Jones music videos from the ‘80s on the way to work
Watching a great blue heron glide across the gray sky, effortlessly
White feather earrings made of clay
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
5-14-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Having an unobstructed view of last night’s storm, majestic clouds, double rainbows and all
Noticing unkindness and doing my best to counter it
Dusting off my deep breathing practice
Salmon with homemade wild garlic mustard pesto and pan roasted potatoes
Fresh eyeglass nose pads
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
5-13-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
How the rain makes leaves’ and tree bark’s colors richer
The five deer that let me walk by and didn’t snort or run away
The arrival of my butterfly pea seeds
When Patrick surprises me with new clothes
Aloe vera gel straight from the fridge
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
5-12-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Little Nora’s first visit to Naked Acres
Another tree planted in the memory garden
Carrot cake overnight oats
A full day on the mower beneath a great big sky
Cutting a new walking path in the eastern field
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
5-11-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
The forest floor alive with squirrels, and spotting a little black one
All the day’s work being outside today
Anytime I can wrangle brambles off of a tree sapling
My niece, Maile, celebrating her first Mother’s Day
Discovering blueberry goat cheese
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
5-10-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
How the land holds our memories, and we trust each other
Getting to be part of Forrest and Dawn’s wedding ceremony
Walking boots slick with a new day’s dew
Looking forward to time on the mower later today
Being there for the arrival of the day’s first egg
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🥚
5-9-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Watching three deer leap over a tree blocking the walking path, stunning because the tree was at least four feet off the ground
On track with our direct sow seeds and indoor starts
Eating so much better this week than last week, and that I even have food choices
BBQ chicken pizza and the Stanley cup playoffs, watching the Edmonton Oilers win in overtime
Taking overnight oats to a new level
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
5-8-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
The sun rising over a day of challenges and triumphs and love
Walking the east field with Patrick, reimagining its shape and the new life already growing there
More southern breezes
Sweet memories of time at Tybee Island with Peg and Rob And Patrick
The strength to believe in different outcomes
What are you grateful for today?🙃🇺🇦☮️🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
5-7-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
A little U2 on the way into work (Where the Streets Have No Name)
The difference a little prep the night before makes in the morning
A deepening respect for what long-term care advocates do every day
A variety of options
Having a clean and comfortable bed
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
5-6-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
A friend’s progress following surgery
Radishes and potatoes up and reaching for the sun
Time for tea and breakfast before a busy work day
Walking through walls of lush green saplings dripping with yesterday’s raindrops
Pan roasted shrimp and asparagus with sesame ramen noodles
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
5-5-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Hearing wild turkeys on the morning walk
The return of the hammock spinners in the fields
Everything greening up everywhere
Time with two dear friends, helping them with their wedding ceremony
Raspberry oat pancakes for dinner
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
5-4-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Black cherry creamed honey on an English muffin
Mastering the English paper pieced hexagon quilt technique in one afternoon
Life after granola
Supporting the farmers market up the road
Tackling a few small land projects before breakfast
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈