6-2-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Walking the land twice yesterday, once with Patrick by my side❤️
At long last, giving away items we’ve had no use for for years, making the barn easier to navigate
The spider who dropped in from the shelf above my home office desk to join me for breakfast
Oriole antics that rival the kittens’ in entertainment value
Parmesan smashed twice baked potatoes
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
6-1-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
A grand day out with Patrick, to just wander
The mystery of a bird’s feathers
Feeling ensconced and hidden by the trees on the ridge
Not needing bug repellent quite yet on the morning walks
Faithful hummingbirds, playful towhees, sassy blue jays
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
5-31-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
My first taste of Dubai chocolate
Gallivanting around after work to places I’ve always wanted to visit
How this morning’s walk was the perfect remedy for an unexpected headache
Yesterday’s steady rain making our radishes reach for the heavens
Goat cheese and mixed berry jam on toast
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
5-30-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Dinner with Karen
Walking the land in my bare feet, eating the first French breakfast radish straight from the garden
Cottonwood “snow” drifting down across the meadow
When only M&Ms will do
The lush green leaves and the oxygen they give us
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
5-29-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
How far I’ve come, and what’s next
Pancakes with strawberry creamed honey and bananas
Getting to think a friend for her kindness and generosity
Teaching myself a new skill—graphic design
The colors of spring
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
5-28-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Today being World Otter Day 🦦
Goat cheese scrambled eggs with sun-dried tomatoes and onions from the garden
Walking in the woods between showers
Not giving up on difficult or new things
Honoring the time I set aside for EQ practicing
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
5-27-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Trees trimmed, acres cut, weeds pulled, all with patrick by my side
A gray and yellow sunrise with the promise of rain
No sounds of traffic on the morning walk, just pure silence punctuated by birdsong
All the built-in opportunities for exercise on the land
The scars that show who we are and where we’ve been
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
5-25-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Joyce, Ardis, Susan, Sharon, Sheila and Ellen ❤️
The stories they shared
The disappearing deer on the morning walk
Making a special batch of grain-free granola for a dear friend
Saying my prayers out loud
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
5-23-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
A long weekend to do more work in the garden
When self-care practices are simple in concept and implementation
Getting a good deal on soil for the next round of raised beds
How much I’m enjoying watching hockey
The versatility of chia seeds
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
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?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈