10-30-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Driving 280 round trip miles to be in the company of the most excellent people
Getting good advice and heeding it
Having two containers of Trader Joe’s coconut body butter
Making life simpler
How all children are everyone’s children
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
10-29-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Love within arm’s reach
Buckeyes from the Mr Peanut Shoppe downtown
The stories bubbling up within me, looking for an exit
When all the kitties are in their catnip zone at once
Red lentil and chicken soup with a savory coconut milk, ginger and garlic broth
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
10-28-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Getting to change the narrative
Loyal and treasured granola customers who have become my friends
When dessert is all about waffles
Simple dinners
Greeting the day with movement, strengthening exercise and centering
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
10-27-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Doing more work on the next two books
Time with Peggy and Rob yesterday, with lunch at Mazza’s
Planting garlic, picking the last of a late crop of cucumbers and feeling happy to be outside
The downsizing continuing
Getting back to my strength training routine
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
10-26-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Time with Jason and Jesse for lunch, with memories and enchiladas between us
Meandering along the back roads of Wooster on the way back from Canton, stopping at Buehler’s for old times’ sake
Coming home to yellow-gray skies and utter peace
Living in the world of ideas
The ongoing journey of self-discovery
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
10-25-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
A new puzzle featuring vintage cats
New eyeglasses with elegant and colorful frames
Vinegary coleslaw and kalua pork
A road trip to Akron today to meet dear new friends for lunch
Walking in the creek bed, curious as a child
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
10-24-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
The healing power of reimagining
A lovely pavlova fruit tart from Three Bites Bakery
Lightening the land’s burden, one scrap pile at a time
A day of feel-good projects, inside and outside (mostly outside)
Chicken and sreeet corn enchiladas with fresh guacamole
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
10-23-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Matt’s reassurance and support
Making butternut squash soup in time to have it for lunch
Taking a much-needed sick day
The person I am and who she’s becoming
All four kitties on the couch with me, because they knew
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
10-22-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Warm blankets and an attentive kitten who watches over me while I sleep
Monster cookies made with sunflower butter so work friend who’s allergic to nuts can have them
Tending to my wellbeing without guilt
When art and purpose fill the hours of my day
Trying a new recipe for pumpkin black bean enchiladas
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
10-21-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Clarity, reassurance, and glimmers of hope
Tending toward organized most days
Two more books glued up and curing
Talking with Nora
Two land walks in one day
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
10-20-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
A day filled with art and people I love
Healing, one wound at a time
Attentive kittens
Almond butter monster cookies and green tea on a chilly, rainy afternoon
Salad nicoise for dinner
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
10-19-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
A refreshing walk in the rain, feeling comforted by the clouds
Raking the black walnuts off the walking paths
Spending the day with Andi, talking about important things, eating Oreo truffles
The mere thought of a toasted English muffin with butter
Reconnecting with friend Deb
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
10-18-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
A turkey melt for dinner, with garlicky dill pickles and grain free tortilla chips on the side
My well-honed intuition getting a workout this week
Looking for and finding vintage birdhouses at thrift stores
Fond memories of my days in the antiques business
A road trip to Circleville this afternoon to drop off a granola order at The Rustic Harvest
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
10-17-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
A granola-baking marathon that started at 4:00am, filling the house with maple and almond aromas
Another great coaching session with Ben from Thoughtful Leader
Reliable trash pick up
What art does for a broken heart
The perfect timing of the universe
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
10-16-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
A chicken sausage and cheese wrap for dinner
Finding myself in Charlie Mackesy’s new book
A slightly better night’s sleep than I expected
How meaningful it is to care for living things
Whatever new thing I’ll learn about myself today
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
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?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈