8-16-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Cleaning up the chicken run, watering troughs and all, before sitting down to eat
Dusting off old perceptions
Tending to feelings and growth
Cool chunks of watermelon for breakfast
Receiving kind words with humility and thankfulness
What are you grateful for today?☮️🇺🇦🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
8-15-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
How, in the right light, the Queen Anne’s lace blossoms in the field look like horizontal snowflakes floating above the tall grasses
Giving handmade gifts to cherished coworkers
Patrick’s magical creativity with leftovers
Mushroom hot cocoa
Choosing peace over productivity
What are you grateful for today?☮️🇺🇦🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
8-14-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
The chance to shower or take a bath every day
Getting to sleep peacefully in a clean and comfortable bed
Having food to eat and a place to prepare it
A daily rhythm that starts with telling Patrick I love him, having him within arm’s reach
Stars visible through the fog
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈✨
8-13-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
The rain…the sweet and long overdue rain
The shake Patrick made for me so early this morning
Feeling so many things at once and waiting on others
Fitful sleep with no dreams
A clean, comfortable bed with good pillows and soft sheets
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
8-12-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Cool mornings, breezy afternoons
Peanut butter chocolate chia seed pudding
Patrick, just because he exists
Choosing my next sewing project with the greatest enthusiasm
The dangerously delicious strawberry matcha latte from Starbucks
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
8-11-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
When the birds in the woods are louder than the traffic a mile away
Time with Russell and Jen, with great food and much love between us
Looking forward to time on the mower and using my mini chainsaw on a fallen tree
Wrapping up a set of gifts for dear coworkers
Getting the most of my Canva pro subscription
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
8-10-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Tidying up a friend’s resting place, making it look even more peaceful
Dopamine moments
Prepping all the garlic for storage
Fresh juice for the hummingbird feeder
Good neighbors who helped with a long-standing garden project
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
8-9-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
How blue jays seem to have an opinion on everything
Patrick’s joy, being on the mower
Those I carry with me on the morning walks
Babies on the spider plant in the bathroom
Land as sanctuary
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
8-8-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
An early and peaceful landing at home after a numbers-filled day at work
Conversing with all the living things
Watching the kittens jump up to catch the falling black walnut leaves
Getting back on the chocolate chia seed pudding train
Being aware—of self, surroundings, mystery, others
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
8-7-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
The healing properties of space and time
Planets and stars above me, all around us, really
Reconnecting, and then staying connected
New neck stretches before bed that work quite nicely
Thursday = downtown farmers market day
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
8-6-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Hearing Mary’s stories and spending time with Marjie
Feeling comfortable in my traveling skin
How the buses look shinier and cleaner today, for some reason
Using the flatbread I made earlier this week for a quick mini pizza
Knowing that the load will be lighter at day’s end
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
8-5-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
A huge bouquet of flowers from neighbor Sherry’s garden, filled with zinnias, phlox and miniature blackeyed Susans
A road trip to Cincinnati today for work
Sweet words from Patrick
The humorous variations in cat personalities
Pan-seared sesame ginger ahi tuna with baked potatoes and marinated cherry tomatoes
What are grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
8-4-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Ripe avocados and quiche for breakfast
Getting to meet a dear late friend’s neighbors at her celebration of life gathering
Another day of running reports and analyzing data (seriously, love this part of my job)
Cleaning out the flowerbed in front of the living room windows, trimming back the irises
Listening to my feelings
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
8-3-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
An unplanned and surprisingly productive morning walk
Time with Jackie, hugs from Jason and Jesse, knowing looks all around
Chocolate peanut butter mochi pancakes
Two batches of buckeye granola cooling on trays in the kitchen
Brisket and pork belly burgers hot off the grill, and goat cheese in the salad
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
8-2-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Two nights without a fan or the window A/C
Soothing eye drops
Celebrating the life of a dear friend
Perfect granola-making weather—cool, breezy, sunny
Blueberries turning the morning yogurt purple
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
8-1-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
The deep rich purple of the first ironweed blooms
A lovely quiche made with leftover stir fried veggies and rice and ham
The kittens, fascinated with their view from the windowsill
A cool morning after so much relentless heat, perfect for a steaming bowl of oats
Feeling better
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
7-31-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Dropping and doing fifty ab crunches on the walking path near the woods, startling a young deer
A clean kitchen to start the day
Finally, tomatoes and cucumbers!
Learning hockey slang and jargon
Watching the wind play with clusters of leaves on the mulberries and black walnuts
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
7-30-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Getting up earlier than I expected, and enjoying the peace
Acupuncture points that relieve stress and anxiety (thanks, Nicole)
Honoring our losses and grief with tears
Teaching myself how to alter a couple of dresses
Making time to intentionally create, make art, enjoy the process
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🏒
7-29-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Getting to celebrate my brother’s birthday for all these years
Feeling understood and appreciated
Tuna salad on a toasted English muffin
Chaga tea and mulberries
A nice foot soak to start the day
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
7-28-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Fog in my eyelashes and on my face
How the morning walk calms down everything. Everything.
Making support animals for friends at work
A magnificent spiderweb on the front porch
Black beans and rice with smoked chicken
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈