7-17-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
A comforting breakthrough
Mochi pancake and waffle mix
Finding two everything bagels in the freezer
Patrick rescuing eight more marked down cedar trees from Kroger
What a kind word and thoughtfulness can do for a person’s soul
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
7-15-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Finally getting to make a batch of skillet flatbread, sprinkled with Parmesan
Patrick’s incredible score on seven cedar trees
A cool morning and a hot cup of tea
Standing my ground without begging
The comfort of pizza
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
7-14-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
The soothing sound of rainsong in the woods
Getting lost in the garden yesterday morning for three and a half glorious hours
Grilled tri-tip steak with grilled polenta and our own All Blue, Pontiac and Yukon Gold potatoes, oven roasted with garlic, flake salt and pepper
Knowing it’s ok to be distracted and moving through it
Harvesting potatoes with Patrick, prepping to braid the garlic and onions
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
7-13-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Time with family after time with my dear friend, closing the circle of love and support
Holding Patrick close
Reinvigorating our commitment to simplicity and joy
A walk in silence, complete and comforting, carrying all I love with me into the woods
Fresh lemon juice in my morning water
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
7-12-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Jackie’s smile and wisdom, all within arm’s reach yesterday
Fresh strawberries
Listening to Seth, my heart going out to him and his brother, Jason
Caregivers anywhere and everywhere
More lessons in love and grief
What are you grateful for today ?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
7-11-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
A friend’s courage and perseverance
When packages arrive safely
A road trip to Akron with friend Jackie waiting at the end
Dried cinnamon apples from the Mr Peanut shop downtown
Steamed cod with creamy polenta and pan seared zucchini
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
7-10-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Memories of my dear friend, Jackie, rushing to the surface
Cooler evenings
Wearing an outfit I haven’t worn in a long time, and feeling great in it
The aroma of pan sautéed mushrooms
How there’s always an opportunity to grow, help, soothe, celebrate
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
7-9-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
A quiet walk in the field after dinner, checking on the red Buckeye sapling and the day lilies
Scrambled eggs with red onion from the garden, spinach and Parmesan
Giving and receiving grace
Making art on my lunch break
The comfort of clouds and overcast skies, a break from the searing sun
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
7-8-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
A six-bunny, one-deer, one-HUGE-dragonfly morning walk
Enough rain to make the land look lush
Robert De Niro
Roasted vegetables over pasta with olive oil, garlic, sun-dried tomatoes and fresh Parmesan
Giving away art studio treasures to dear friends
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
7-7-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Getting all ten acres of field, meadow, walking paths and open lawn cut over the long weekend, and loving every minute of it
Being better at shifting my thoughts away from negative spiraling
That post-walk shower-clean feeling
Learning about lacrosse
A kind and thorough downsizing of all my art supplies
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
7-6-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Mulching where the garlic grew, the soil still fragrant from this year’s harvest
Silence in the woods on the morning walk, my own private retreat
Spreading fresh wood chips in the chicken run for the girls to play in
Finally making headway on clearing out the weeds below the grove of sweet gum saplings
A lovely last gathering with six new friends, food and support and encouragement between us, and connection
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
7-5-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Grilled peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for breakfast
How loud and proud the girls are when they lay their eggs
A most impressive onion and garlic harvest
Making food for new friends
Moments of deep peace and hope
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
7-4-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
A whole lotta tree and bramble trimming on the morning mosey
Parmesan and spinach in the eggs today
Mussels bathed in a garlic and lemony broth, with toasted gnocchi, zucchini fries and Mazza’s famous salad on the side
A quest for the perfect tart cherry ice cream
Clever spiders who set their webs parallel to the walking path instead of across it
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🐈⬛🤟🏳️🌈
7-3-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
My feet on the soft tall grass of the walking paths again, after far too long
The paella at Barroluco, an Argentinian restaurant around the corner from the office
Early morning laundry-hanging
Always loving roasted green beans and mashers
The strong likelihood that I’ll FINALLY be able to cut the grass after work
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🐈⬛🤟🏳️🌈
7-2-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Baby deer, romping
A blue ticking striped boyfriend shirt
Remembering a friend’s writing and storytelling skills
Being on track with a big work project
When dinner is simple as the time passes between us easily
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🐈⬛🤟🏳️🌈
7-1-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Lightning that surrounds you at sunset
The surprise gift of a matcha latte from Patrick
An entire day to work on one project, testing my focusing capabilities
A cotton candy sunrise
A good report from the eye doctor
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
6-30-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Tending to our sweet little thirsty hummingbirds
Reinforcing the walls of the chicken coop after an attempted break in by some raccoons
Grilled pork tenderloin with a coffee-spiked brine
A cancelled appointment that freed up time to work on a big project
Making a dent in my studio art supplies, finding things to send along to friends
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
6-29-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Reaffirming a slew of coping strategies, including denial, avoidance, irreverent humor, indignation and gardening
Tending to the garden this morning in the fog and humidity, replanting volunteer tomatoes, weeding and cutting back thistles
An indoor project waiting for me in the studio that will make things easier
More baby raccoon antics in the mulberry branches
The give away box, filling up again with other people’s treasures
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
6-28-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
An impulsive late nite pizza with kalamata olives and Parmesan
More mulberry tree trimming as the storms rolled in before dinner
Using the cut branches from the mulberries as trellises for the beans in pots in the porch
A fresh batch of coconut almond chocolate chia seed pudding
Sitting at sunset, still and grateful for all we know and have here on this tiny slice of paradise
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈