11-14-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Getting enough sleep—a nice change
Roasted butternut squash with olive oil, salt and pepper
The privilege of praying for others
Washing the soft fluffy couch throws and lap quilts
Putting memories to rest one at a time
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🐈⬛🤟🏳️🌈
11-13-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Middle of the night meditation and affirmations
The quiet peace of dark early morning
Gathering items for the local food pantry
Having two pairs of Hello Kitty socks
Asking the question “how much art can a person create?” and having an answer
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
11-12-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Finally getting to see the northern lights in my own backyard
A fantastic braised cabbage recipe with room for variations
Encouragement from all directions
The scent of autumn
Pushing through an annoying cold with lots of tea and honey
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
11-11-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Window quilts to slow down the drafts
How easy it was to tuck in the chickens last night
All that the land understands that I don’t
The feeling of putting that last puzzle piece into place
Not giving up
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
11-10-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Braised red cabbage with chicken maple sausages and rosemary roasted potatoes
A day of puzzles, art and resting
A mild and soft first snow of the season
All the ways to cook and bake with pumpkin
Honey in my tea—lots of it
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
11-8-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Getting to spend the day with Andi in beautiful Athens, Ohio
Clean home = peaceful home
Making progress on a complex puzzle
Fog and moonlight—great combination for the morning walk
My faithful companions: chaga tea and Tink
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈🐝
11-7-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
A midday visit to the Mr Peanut Shoppe with Katie for treats
Cloud-muted moonlight
This morning’s walk, waiting patiently
Finally washing the windows upstairs
The hunt for a good pair of books to get me through the winter
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
11-6-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
A little Billy Joel on the ride into work
When you wake up from bad dreams
Standing on the grass by the chicken coops, bathed in moonlight
A hug from Moe
An idea for a vintage tissue and wrapping paper collage
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
11-5-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
More of that delicious sesame seared ahi tuna with spicy mixed greens on the side
Getting to see people I care about today
How much I’m enjoying hooded sweatshirts these days
Encircling myself in prayer
How love just keeps going. And going…
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
11-4-2025
Good morning dear friends—on this day, I’m grateful for…
A warm and safe home to wake up in and come back to
Running water that’s also safe to drink
A hot bath at the end of a full day, with an exquisite view of the rising moon
Knowing it’ll be ok
A new-to-me sweater that fits perfectly, like the best hug
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
11-3-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
New placemats made out of fun fabric
Rotisserie chicken salad with a Dijon horseradish dressing and red onions
Making tiny reading room dioramas
How content my chickens are
Mower time on a cool sunny autumn afternoon—nothing else like it
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
11-2-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
The aroma of garlic-roasted tomatoes filling the house before the sun is even close to rising
New-to-me sweaters from a reliable thrift store
Kalua pork quesadillas with fresh guacamole and street corn dip
Getting reacquainted with an old neighborhood
Putting away the market equipment and supplies, finally getting them off the porch
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
11-1-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
A helpful conversation with Jesse
An autumn vegetable soup with chunks of grilled chicken
Tink, guardian of my slumber
A most exquisite flourless chocolate torte
Having options I didn’t know were out there
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
10-31-2025
Good morning dear friends—today, I’m grateful for…
Lunch with Joyce
Tending to life’s details with grace and dignity
A perfectly grilled cheese sammich with a steaming cup of butternut squash soup on the side
How when you give, you naturally receive
A fridge full of eggs
What are you grateful for today?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈
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?🇺🇦☮️🌻🏕📚🌈🤟🐈⬛🏳️🌈