10-15-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
The rich and varied world of human emotions
Making monster cookies before dinner, and having two of them for dinner (with an apple on the side)
The pantry looking less cluttered
Knowing how to take care of myself
The gift of support in a bracelet from Nora
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
10-14-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Adding pasta to leftover Tuscan white bean soup, with most excellent results
Adding a lawn chair to the garden aesthetic, also with most excellent results
Looking back on a weekend of promises kept—to the land, to family, to myself
Walking togs, washed and ready for another week of treks
How the folks on the donation side of the thrift store know me by name now
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
10-13-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Consistently doing what I say I’m going to do
Clusters of tiny mushrooms on the walking path
Land projects on track for this long weekend
Noosa’s tart cherry yogurt with cinnamon coconut granola
A cat’s fascination at the windowsill
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
10-12-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Zip ties and bungee cords = essentials in the handywoman’s toolbox
Scrambled eggs with blistered tomatoes, spinach and Parmesan cheese
A bonfire at Jane and John’s, with laughter and food aplenty
When the day dawns on good land projects, a silent and prayerful walk in the woods, and seven deer
Watching how Tink empties her toy box with kitten frenetic energy
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
10-11-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Always having rainy day projects on stand by
Garlic-planting day, alongside garden tidying-up day and chicken coop cleaning day
Aladdin’s grilled ahi tuna over spicy mixed greens with feta and lemon tahini dressing
The growing pile of things to give away to friends and family
Getting the pantry more streamlined and more efficient
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
10-10-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Walking in the woods on paths bathed in moonlight and silence
Repurposing sand from our market canopy weights into miniature Zen gardens and giving them away
Feeling tended to and tucked in by the land, as always
Two blankets, two kittens = one good night’s sleep
How much people care
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
10-9-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Whit’s bourbon praline pecan custard with a drizzle of hot fudge to get me home from work
The silhouettes of the kittens curled up on the bed, backlit by a full moon
Faithful companions
Getting to work with Katie
A great little Greek restaurant around the corner from the office
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
10-8-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
A soothing soaking rain, making a late crop of cucumbers very happy
Kalua pork and mixed greens with a bright yellow bell pepper chopped up on top
A moon so bright I almost don’t need my headlights on
The healing power of creating stuff
Stitching signatures for a book that’s been waiting a long time to be finished
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
10-7-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Art and a soft steady rain in the early morning hours
Knowing deep in my heart I’m doing the best I can
A bath before dinner
Sweeping the leaves off the roof and clearing off the gutter screens
Looking forward to my first leadership coaching session tomorrow evening
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
10-6-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Family and good food at the local food truck festival
Tending to feelings
Playing my steel rain drum as the setting sun watched
Making plans for more EQ learning opportunities in the coming weeks
A new chicken pillow and a new cat mug, birthday gifts from family
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🦞🐒
10-5-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Keeping the windows open last night to freshen up the living room and the kitchen
Doing impulsive things that connect me with new people
Falling asleep outside underneath the mulberry trees, losing all track of time
Coconut foot cream and fluffy socks
Finally seeing the effects of all the downsizing I’ve been doing
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
10-4-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
The chance to help harvest grapes at a local vineyard
Clean sheets, clean dishes and soon, after the morning walk, clean me!
Finally discovering vegan Daiya cheese
An idea for miniature and portable Zen gardens
Learning to not worry as much about the future it’s hard, but I’m trying)
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
10-3-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Check-ins from family and precious friends
Being waited on by a server who didn’t call me “honey” or “sweetie”
Barbara Kipfer’s new book “5,203 Things to Do Instead of Looking at Your Phone”
Planning and looking forward to a day in the garden
A fried egg sammich on an everything bagel
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
10-2-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
My friend Matt and his caring self
Time with seven beautiful, kind, thoughtful and vibrant women
The peace that comes from vulnerability
Carrot sticks with ranch dip
That Sting was born and has kept on making music
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
10-1-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
How the wind quietly rearranges things while I sleep
Feeling connected to the land, my home
Creating opportunities to share EQ with others
Those times when only homemade pizza will do
A solitary chicken from our flock who leaves the coop to have her own adventures on the land
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🥚
9-30-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Clarity of purpose and direction
People who are skilled at navigating the rich and tumultuous human emotional landscape
Tink, faithfully by my side through the night
My friend, Kim, introducing me to Trader Joe’s coconut body butter
Taking time to rest my eyes
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
9-29-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Knocking more things off the to-do list
Cowboy beans and cornbread
When the high protein yogurt is on sale
Jars of homemade mixed berry chia seed jam
Washing and using a quilt I made almost 30 years ago
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
9-28-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Time with Kim, talking, walking, visiting the shops in Mount Vernon, eating at Pancho’s Tacos
Continuing to find ways to lighten the load
A reliably warm sweatshirt for the chilly morning walks
The ongoing work of finding meaning in this life
Reimagining the shape and arrangement of the studio
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
9-27-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Time with my sister and my niece, sushi and stories between us
The privilege of another trip around the sun
Figuring it out, one day at a time
Tai chi and stretches with Sybbie this morning
A new vacuum cleaner that shows dirt no mercy
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
9-26-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
A good talk with dear friend Rhonda
Getting to and from a work event safely, with gorgeous views of northwestern Ohio along the way
The simple joy a sketch pad and watercolor markers can bring
More shredding, downsizing, recycling, composting
Chilly air and bright stars
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈